In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
BONOGod is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.
More Bono Quotes
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I’m a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I’ve been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.
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I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‘Is this it? Are we still relevant?’
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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
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U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don’t really know what we’re doing and when we do, it doesn’t seem to help.
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Music can change the world because it can change people.
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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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Rock stars are good at making noise.
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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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Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
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The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.
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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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The less you know, the more you believe.
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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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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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