It’s still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.
BONOAs 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.
More Bono Quotes
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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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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 right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.
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If September 11th has taught us anything, it’s certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.
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It’s quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I’d rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.
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Rock stars are good at making noise.
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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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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.
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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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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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Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
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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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If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
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