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Relevance is a big, big question. It's more about what's your definition of being relevant. In the music world, agism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2 -
I don't like the name, U2, actually.
Bono U2
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.
Bono U2 -
So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.
Bono U2 -
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
Bono U2 -
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.
Bono U2 -
It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.
Bono U2 -
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.
Bono U2
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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.
Bono U2 -
Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
Bono U2 -
Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.
Bono U2 -
Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
Bono U2 -
Jesus, Jesus help me. I'm alone in this world.
Bono U2 -
I love the Elvis movies. I used to watch them. In every single one of his movies he wasn't acting as a car salesman - he was acting as a car salesman who loved to play guitar.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
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We all have views on what our Irishness means to us. Two members of the band were born in England and were raised in the Protestant faith. Bono's mother was Protestant and his father was Catholic. I was brought up Catholic. U2 are a living example of the kind of unity of faith and tradition that is possible in Northern Ireland.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2 -
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?'
Bono U2 -
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
Bono U2 -
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.
Bono U2 -
In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
Bono U2 -
The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
Bono U2
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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.
Bono U2 -
We spent a year trying to play one song, practising about four hours a week. Then we decided that if we really wanted to learn this song, we'd have to practice two days a week.
Adam Clayton U2 -
The only thing I wouldn't like to do is to play roles as a musician. I'm not sure that I would be comfortable doing that, and I'm not sure I'd be very good at it. I think I would be better served, and would be a better partner, if I was in something outside of myself.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2 -
When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God's eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can't un-see.
Bono U2