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.
BONOI’ve learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.
More Bono Quotes
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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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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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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 still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.
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U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
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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.
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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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I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.
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For all that “I was lost, I am found,” it is probably more accurate to say, “I was really lost, I’m a little less so at the moment.
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U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.
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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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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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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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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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Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
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