Essentially, I’m a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good,
BONOWhen those people get up at the Grammys and say, “I thank God”, I always imagine God going, “Oh, don’t, please don’t thank me for that one. Please, oh, that’s an awful one! Don’t thank me for that – that’s a piece of crap !”
More Bono Quotes
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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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The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.
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It’s quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I’d rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.
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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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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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I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.
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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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Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
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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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When those people get up at the Grammys and say, “I thank God”, I always imagine God going, “Oh, don’t, please don’t thank me for that one. Please, oh, that’s an awful one! Don’t thank me for that – that’s a piece of crap !”
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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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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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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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I’m as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes – and I will dare to say to you that I don’t think of myself as a celebrity per se.
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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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