For all that “I was lost, I am found,” it is probably more accurate to say, “I was really lost, I’m a little less so at the moment.
BONOWhat I like about pop music, and why I’m still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
More Bono Quotes
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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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The less you know, the more you believe.
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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It’s very real. It’s very strong.
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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
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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.
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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don’t read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2’s audience.
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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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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
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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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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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