In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
BONOIt’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
More Bono Quotes
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Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
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I’m as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes – and I will dare to say to you that I don’t think of myself as a celebrity per se.
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Rock stars are good at making noise.
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The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.
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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
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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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I 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.
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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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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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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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Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty,
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