U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
BONOIf I don’t understand it, it must be art.
More Bono Quotes
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Even though I’m a believer, I still find it really hard to be around other believers. They make me nervous, they make me twitch. I sorta watch my back.
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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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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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But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship.
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To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
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There 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.
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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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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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The idea that there is one kind of African is of course ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads.
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Music can change the world because it can change people.
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Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.
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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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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
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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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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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