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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.

Bono

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
BONO

Different Littles People
Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.
BONO

Country Fire Flames Needs
I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
BONO

Catholic Rocks Stars
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.
BONO

Believer Nervous Watches
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.
BONO

Country Digging Thinking
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.
BONO

Audience Hear Public Opinion
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.
BONO

Hands Jesus Looks
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.
BONO

Albums Artist Rolling
Music can change the world because it can change people.
BONO

Change Inspirational Music
Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
BONO

God Sometimes Way
Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
BONO

Joy Laughter Real
The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.
BONO

Eye Mean Ocean
It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty,
BONO

Honesty Successful Thinking
The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.
BONO

Dear Stupid Wells
The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.
BONO

Country Notice Themselves
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
BONO

Book Giving Persons

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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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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