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.
BONOThere was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that’s what was in our head for ‘Get On Your Boots.’ But actually, the song is much more punk rock.
More Bono Quotes
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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
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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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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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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’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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I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.
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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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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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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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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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Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.
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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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Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
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