As a musician and a songwriter it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
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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Essentially, I’m a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good,
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In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
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I’m as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes – and I will dare to say to you that I don’t think of myself as a celebrity per se.
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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
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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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What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.
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The great gifts of models are not that they’re more beautiful than the next person, it’s that they’re able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.
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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.
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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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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
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Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
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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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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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For all that “I was lost, I am found,” it is probably more accurate to say, “I was really lost, I’m a little less so at the moment.
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