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.
BONOIt’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
More Bono Quotes
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Even though I’m a believer, I still find it really hard to be around other believers. They make me nervous, they make me twitch. I sorta watch my back.
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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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Essentially, I’m a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good,
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It’s still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.
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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?’
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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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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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It’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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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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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
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U2 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.
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In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
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Music can change the world because it can change people.
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