Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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
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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that’s what was in our head for ‘Get On Your Boots.’ But actually, the song is much more punk rock.
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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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It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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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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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
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I do see the good in people, but I also see the bad — I see it in myself. I know what I’m capable of. Good and bad. It’s very imnportant that we make that clear. Just because I often find a way around the darkness doesn’t mean tjat I don’t know it’s there. (Bono)
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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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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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But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that’s why we came to America.
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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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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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There’s no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.
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If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
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