It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
BONOWe thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
More Bono Quotes
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Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
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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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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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For all that “I was lost, I am found,” it is probably more accurate to say, “I was really lost, I’m a little less so at the moment.
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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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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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The idea that there is one kind of African is of course ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads.
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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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If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.
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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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Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.
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There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that’s what was in our head for ‘Get On Your Boots.’ But actually, the song is much more punk rock.
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I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don’t read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2’s audience.
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The great gifts of models are not that they’re more beautiful than the next person, it’s that they’re able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.
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U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.
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