Bono Quotes
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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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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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Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems - from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics.
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I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.
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It's very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.
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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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I'm actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.
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As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.
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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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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
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I think 'Invisible' is a great song, but I don't know how accessible it is.
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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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Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle - and not just in the sense of money, by the way. The Beatles are untouchable. That’s just a joke.
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So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.
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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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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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I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic.
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U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.
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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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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.
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Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle... and not just in the sense of money, by the way; the Beatles are untouchable - those billionaire reports are a joke.
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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.