Bono Quotes

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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Birthday Dream Record See Song
The great music for so many artists – the Beatles, the Rolling Stones – was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.
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Albums Artist Rolling
But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship.
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Hands Jesus Looks
It’s still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.
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Blessing Looks Weakness
When those people get up at the Grammys and say, “I thank God”, I always imagine God going, “Oh, don’t, please don’t thank me for that one. Please, oh, that’s an awful one! Don’t thank me for that – that’s a piece of crap !”
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God People Pieces Thank
Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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Home People World
If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
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Art Must Understand
Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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Bequeath Children Pops
Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
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Different Littles People
I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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Catholic Rocks Stars
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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Father People Something Trying Wrong
There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that’s what was in our head for ‘Get On Your Boots.’ But actually, the song is much more punk rock.
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Rocks Song Thinking
Music can change the world because it can change people.
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Change Inspirational Music
If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.
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Inspire Music Songs
Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
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Helping Jesus World
The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.
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Dear Stupid Wells
It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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Ambition Chivalry Growth
As a musician and a songwriter it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
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Believe Heart Views
Everyone’s got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It’s a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one.
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Abandoned Everyone Following Sometimes
It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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Abandon Exposing Impossible Yourself
My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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Inspirational Simple Understanding
You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It’s very real. It’s very strong.
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Dream Real Strong
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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Country People Resistance
There’s no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.
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Art Mastery Retirement
You don’t become an ‘artist’ unless you’ve got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole.
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Cutting Loss Song
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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Believe Book War
Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
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Building Enemy Happens

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