Bono Quotes
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Let's not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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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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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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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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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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Rock music is niche.
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Rock stars are good at making noise.
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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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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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If I don't understand it, it must be art.
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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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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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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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As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
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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 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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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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Whenever I see grace, I’m moved.
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Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.
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I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.
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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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It's much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won't keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, 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?'
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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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There's a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you're in the wrong place.