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.
BONOWe thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
More Bono Quotes
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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.
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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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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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It’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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Rock stars are good at making noise.
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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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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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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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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.
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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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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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Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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