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.
BONOJesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
More Bono Quotes
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It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don’t read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2’s audience.
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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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It’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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Even though I’m a believer, I still find it really hard to be around other believers. They make me nervous, they make me twitch. I sorta watch my back.
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I wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
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Music can change the world because it can change people.
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For all that “I was lost, I am found,” it is probably more accurate to say, “I was really lost, I’m a little less so at the moment.
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Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.
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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 put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.
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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.
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