I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it’s to be true and not cover up the cracks.
BONOCelebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.
More Bono Quotes
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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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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.
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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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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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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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The great moments of rock ‘n’ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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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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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.
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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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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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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.
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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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