In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
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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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
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It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty,
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Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.
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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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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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Rock stars are good at making noise.
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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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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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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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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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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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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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Everyone’s got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It’s a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one.
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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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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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