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?’
BONOJesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
More Bono Quotes
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Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?
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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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U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
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It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty,
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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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When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
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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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Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.
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U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.
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I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don’t read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2’s audience.
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The great music for so many artists – the Beatles, the Rolling Stones – was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.
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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 do see the good in people, but I also see the bad — I see it in myself. I know what I’m capable of. Good and bad. It’s very imnportant that we make that clear. Just because I often find a way around the darkness doesn’t mean tjat I don’t know it’s there. (Bono)
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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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When those people get up at the Grammys and say, “I thank God”, I always imagine God going, “Oh, don’t, please don’t thank me for that one. Please, oh, that’s an awful one! Don’t thank me for that – that’s a piece of crap !”
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Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.
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Rock stars are good at making noise.
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To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
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In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don’t like it, actually.
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There’s no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.
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It’s still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.
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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
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You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life…but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what’s missing.
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