Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.
BONOI 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?’
More Bono Quotes
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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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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.
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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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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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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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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.
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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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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.
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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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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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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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The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don’t like it, actually.
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