Bono Quotes
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Let's not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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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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If I don't understand it, it must be art.
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You don't become an 'artist' unless you've got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole. 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. 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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I'm as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes - and I will dare to say to you that I don't think of myself as a celebrity per se.
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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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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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I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.
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Rock stars are good at making noise.
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Rock music is niche.
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I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.
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When people say, you know, 'Good teacher,' 'Prophet,' 'Really nice guy'... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you're left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.
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Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.
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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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There's a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you're in the wrong place.
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What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution - this revolution - is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.
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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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I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.
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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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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. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.
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I'm actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.
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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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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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I always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first.