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.
BONOThere’s no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.
More Bono Quotes
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Rock stars are good at making noise.
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You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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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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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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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.
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Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
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It’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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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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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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But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship.
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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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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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The great music for so many artists – the Beatles, the Rolling Stones – was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.
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