The great moments of rock ‘n’ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
BONOConvictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
More Bono Quotes
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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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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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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.
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Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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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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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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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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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
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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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The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.
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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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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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