It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
BONOThe right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.
More Bono Quotes
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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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It’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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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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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.
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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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Sadly, I do my homework. I’ve a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan.
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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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The great gifts of models are not that they’re more beautiful than the next person, it’s that they’re able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.
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Music can change the world because it can change people.
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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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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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Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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What I like about pop music, and why I’m still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
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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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