I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I’ve always felt blessed.
BONOI’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.
More Bono Quotes
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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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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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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
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Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
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Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
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I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it’s to be true and not cover up the cracks.
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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
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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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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
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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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Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.
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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.
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I do see the good in people, but I also see the bad — I see it in myself. I know what I’m capable of. Good and bad. It’s very imnportant that we make that clear. Just because I often find a way around the darkness doesn’t mean tjat I don’t know it’s there. (Bono)
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