Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
BONOMusic 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.
More Bono Quotes
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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
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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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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
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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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You don’t become an ‘artist’ unless you’ve got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole.
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It’s quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I’d rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.
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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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I’m a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I’ve been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.
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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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Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
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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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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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Music can change the world because it can change people.
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