Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
BONOIn general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
More Bono Quotes
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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 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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God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.
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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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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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What I like about pop music, and why I’m still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
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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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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 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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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
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You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life…but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what’s missing.
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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?’
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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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