In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
BONOI truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.
More Bono Quotes
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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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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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Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.
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The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.
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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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There’s no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.
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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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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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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that’s what was in our head for ‘Get On Your Boots.’ But actually, the song is much more punk rock.
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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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Everyone’s got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It’s a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one.
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I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don’t read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2’s audience.
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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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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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