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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.

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Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?
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Despair Enemy Poverty
There’s no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.
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Art Mastery Retirement
In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
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Rocks Stars Views
The less you know, the more you believe.
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Believe Favourite Humility
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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Concerts Country Debt World
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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Answer Perspective Questions Thoughtful
In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
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General Much People Rich
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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Inspire Music Songs
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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Darkness Song Writing
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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Emotional Feelings Originality
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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Albums Artist Rolling
I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‘Is this it? Are we still relevant?’
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Record Relevant Stadiums
Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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Bequeath Children Pops
Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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Inspirational Life Positive
If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
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Art Must Understand
Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
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Different Littles People

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