The great moments of rock ‘n’ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
BONOThe only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don’t like it, actually.
More Bono Quotes
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Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
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U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
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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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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 see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It’s very real. It’s very strong.
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Rock stars are good at making noise.
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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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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
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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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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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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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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.
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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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