If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.
BONORock stars are good at making noise.
More Bono Quotes
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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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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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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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In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
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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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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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I 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.
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When those people get up at the Grammys and say, “I thank God”, I always imagine God going, “Oh, don’t, please don’t thank me for that one. Please, oh, that’s an awful one! Don’t thank me for that – that’s a piece of crap !”
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Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.
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Sadly, I do my homework. I’ve a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan.
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I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.
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The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don’t like it, actually.
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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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