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.
BONOConvictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
More Bono Quotes
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Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
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If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
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Everyone’s got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It’s a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one.
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Rock stars are good at making noise.
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The less you know, the more you believe.
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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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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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Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.
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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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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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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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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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Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.
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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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