I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.
BONOIf 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.
More Bono Quotes
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It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.
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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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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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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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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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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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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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There’s no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.
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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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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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It’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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Rock stars are good at making noise.
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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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I wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
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