What I like about pop music, and why I’m still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
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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It’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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The great gifts of models are not that they’re more beautiful than the next person, it’s that they’re able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.
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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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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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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
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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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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.
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Rock stars are good at making noise.
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Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.
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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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Essentially, I’m a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good,
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The less you know, the more you believe.
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I wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
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If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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