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.
BONOI 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.
More Bono Quotes
-
-
Essentially, I’m a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good,
BONO -
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 !”
BONO -
If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.
BONO -
U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.
BONO -
The great gifts of models are not that they’re more beautiful than the next person, it’s that they’re able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.
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 -
Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
BONO -
Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
BONO -
You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
BONO -
I 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?’
BONO -
God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.
BONO -
Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
BONO -
If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
BONO -
You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life…but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what’s missing.
BONO -
I wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
BONO