What I like about pop music, and why I’m still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
BONOBooks! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
More Bono Quotes
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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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Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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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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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 right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.
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Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.
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Rock stars are good at making noise.
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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.
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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
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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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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.
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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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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.
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Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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