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.
BONOLaughter is eternity if joy is real.
More Bono Quotes
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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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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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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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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
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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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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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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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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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Music can change the world because it can change people.
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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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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
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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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Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.
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