The great moments of rock ‘n’ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
BONOThe 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.
More Bono Quotes
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I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it’s to be true and not cover up the cracks.
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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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Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.
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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.
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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I’ve always felt blessed.
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Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
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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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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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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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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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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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But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that’s why we came to America.
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