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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.

Bono

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?’
BONO

Record Relevant Stadiums
Music can change the world because it can change people.
BONO

Change Inspirational Music
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.
BONO

Helping Song Writing
In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
BONO

Dream Sorrow Swim
Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
BONO

Joy Laughter Real
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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Birthday Dream Record See Song
Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.
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Movie Ridiculous Silly Stars
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.
BONO

Commodities Oil School Two
The great music for so many artists – the Beatles, the Rolling Stones – was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.
BONO

Albums Artist Rolling
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.
BONO

Brother Distance Unity
You don’t become an ‘artist’ unless you’ve got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole.
BONO

Cutting Loss Song
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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Ghetto Rocks Self
Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
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Christian Jesus Tolerate
Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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God Sometimes Way
Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.
BONO

Country Digging Thinking
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
BONO

Book Giving Persons

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