Bono Quotes

Music can change the world because it can change people.
Bono

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.
Bono

Change, Fun, Rock

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
Bono

Respect, Great, Different

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
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Mistakes, Wrong, Heroes

But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.
Bono

Jesus, Old, Makes

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.
Bono

Free, Become, Brother

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.
Bono

Age, Between, Wanted

The less you know, the more you believe.
Bono

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
Bono

Equality, Fool, Justice

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
Bono

Thought, Wrong, Questions

Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
Bono

Great, Rock, Past

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

Deep, Fire, Down

You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.
Bono

Strong, Real, Dream

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
Bono

Greatest, Person, Give

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
Bono

End, Ambition, Off

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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Sweet, Listen, Radio

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
Bono

Simple, Person, Christ

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.
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Mean, Poverty, Whole

America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.
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Busy, Real, Country

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
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Religion, God, Enemy

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
Bono

Alone, Emotional, Feelings

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.
Bono

Work, Hope, Enough

Africa will thrive.
Bono

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.
Bono

Work, Good, Done

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
Bono

Famous, Different, Become

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Born: May 10, 1960

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