Music can change the world because it can change people.
BONOU2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.
More Bono Quotes
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The great moments of rock ‘n’ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
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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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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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Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.
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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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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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I’ve learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.
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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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The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.
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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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You don’t become an ‘artist’ unless you’ve got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole.
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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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Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.
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In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
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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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