I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‘Is this it? Are we still relevant?’
BONOI felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I’ve always felt blessed.
More Bono Quotes
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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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When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
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The less you know, the more you believe.
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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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In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
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The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.
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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.
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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.
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Music 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.
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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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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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Music can change the world because it can change people.
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