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 !”
BONOEvery artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
More Bono Quotes
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I’m a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I’ve been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.
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The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.
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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 felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I’ve always felt blessed.
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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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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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To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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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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Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
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The great music for so many artists – the Beatles, the Rolling Stones – was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.
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The less you know, the more you believe.
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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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Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
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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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