There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that’s what was in our head for ‘Get On Your Boots.’ But actually, the song is much more punk rock.
BONOSometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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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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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It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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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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Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
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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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Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.
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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 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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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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Sadly, I do my homework. I’ve a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan.
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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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If September 11th has taught us anything, it’s certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.
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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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