God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.
BONOThe right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.
More Bono Quotes
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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‘Is this it? Are we still relevant?’
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If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.
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The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.
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What I like about pop music, and why I’m still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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Rock stars are good at making noise.
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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
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U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don’t really know what we’re doing and when we do, it doesn’t seem to help.
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Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.
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But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that’s why we came to America.
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I’ve learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.
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I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.
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