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?’
BONORock stars are good at making noise.
More Bono Quotes
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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.
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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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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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Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
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If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
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There’s no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.
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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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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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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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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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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
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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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I wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
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You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It’s very real. It’s very strong.
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