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.
BONOReligion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
More Bono Quotes
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Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
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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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When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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Essentially, I’m a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good,
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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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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
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Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?
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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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To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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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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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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