It’s quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I’d rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.
BONOFacts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.
More Bono Quotes
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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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Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
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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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If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
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Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.
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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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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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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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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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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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The great moments of rock ‘n’ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
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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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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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