Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
BONOMusic can change the world because it can change people.
More Bono Quotes
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I wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
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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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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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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
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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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It’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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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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You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life…but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what’s missing.
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You don’t become an ‘artist’ unless you’ve got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole.
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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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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.
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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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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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