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.
BONOI put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
More Bono Quotes
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If September 11th has taught us anything, it’s certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.
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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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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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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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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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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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It’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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I’ve learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.
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In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
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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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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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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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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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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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I’m a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I’ve been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.
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