Bono Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Bono
Bono Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
What's so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they're being gospel and songs of praise, they are also the blues.
To touch is to heal, to hurt is to steal, if you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel - on your knees boy!
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.
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.
There's nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.
U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks.
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.
Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it's mad that people like me are listened to - you know, rap stars and movie stars.
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.
God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.
Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.
There's a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you're in the wrong place.
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.
You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.
The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.
The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.
It's not only joy as an act of defiance; it's business as usual as an act of defiance. This is just: Do your thing.
I don't believe the devil, I don't believe his book, but the truth is not the same without the lies he made up
You've gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we're just nice, sort of 'death by cupcake.'
ISIS and these kinds of extremists are a death cult. We're a life cult. Rock 'n' roll is a life force, and it's joy as an act of defiance.
If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
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.
The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.
I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I've always felt blessed.
For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment.
Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.
Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.
What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
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.
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.
There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.
At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.
I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.
I always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first.
Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
U2 is an original species ... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
I used to - my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I've always heard kind of melodies in my head.
Until it's on the radio or online, it's not real. With U2, our album isn't finished until it's in the stores.
Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.