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.
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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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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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
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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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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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What I like about pop music, and why I’m still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
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Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.
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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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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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If September 11th has taught us anything, it’s certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.
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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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The less you know, the more you believe.
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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.
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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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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.
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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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