I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.
BONOU2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don’t really know what we’re doing and when we do, it doesn’t seem to help.
More Bono Quotes
-
-
The less you know, the more you believe.
BONO -
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?
BONO -
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.
BONO -
It’s quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I’d rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.
BONO -
Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
BONO -
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.
BONO -
Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.
BONO -
U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
BONO -
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.
BONO -
It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
BONO -
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
BONO -
I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
BONO -
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.
BONO -
But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship.
BONO -
I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
BONO