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.
BONOIt’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.
More Bono Quotes
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In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
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It’s still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.
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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.
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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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It’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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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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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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Music can change the world because it can change people.
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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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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
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It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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