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?’
BONOI do see the good in people, but I also see the bad — I see it in myself. I know what I’m capable of. Good and bad. It’s very imnportant that we make that clear. Just because I often find a way around the darkness doesn’t mean tjat I don’t know it’s there. (Bono)
More Bono Quotes
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Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.
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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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U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
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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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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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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 only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don’t like it, actually.
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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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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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Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.
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You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life…but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what’s missing.
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Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
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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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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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