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 !”
BONOIt’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
More Bono Quotes
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.
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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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There’s no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.
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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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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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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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Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
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If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
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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.
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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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God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.
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But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that’s why we came to America.
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Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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