In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
BONOIt’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
More Bono Quotes
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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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Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
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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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When those people get up at the Grammys and say, “I thank God”, I always imagine God going, “Oh, don’t, please don’t thank me for that one. Please, oh, that’s an awful one! Don’t thank me for that – that’s a piece of crap !”
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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 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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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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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
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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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I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I’ve always felt blessed.
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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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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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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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I’m a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I’ve been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.
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Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
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