You don’t become an ‘artist’ unless you’ve got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole.
BONORock stars are good at making noise.
More Bono Quotes
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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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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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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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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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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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It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.
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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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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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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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Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?
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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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I wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
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Even though I’m a believer, I still find it really hard to be around other believers. They make me nervous, they make me twitch. I sorta watch my back.
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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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