Bono Quotes
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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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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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Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
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Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.
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Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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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 think 'Invisible' is a great song, but I don't know how accessible it is.
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So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.
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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 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 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'm actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.
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Jesus, Jesus help me. I'm alone in this world.
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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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God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small – minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.
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Whenever I see grace, I’m moved.
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I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience.
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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'm home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.
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It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.
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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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I believe that Jesus was, you know, the Son of God. And I understand that... we need to be really, really respectful to people who find that ridiculous and... preposterous.
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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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I'm never nervous.