Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
BONOSometimes religion gets in the way of God.
More Bono Quotes
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Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?
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Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
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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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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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Music can change the world because it can change people.
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I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‘Is this it? Are we still relevant?’
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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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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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Essentially, I’m a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good,
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As a musician and a songwriter it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
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Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.
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U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don’t really know what we’re doing and when we do, it doesn’t seem to help.
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If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
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It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.
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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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