Irish singer & songwriter (1960- )
I don't believe in riches, but you should see where I live.
BONO
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"God Part II"
Well, one of the things that hits have and that great music always has, you know--the music feels like it was already there.
BONO
Oprah Magazine, April 2004
I have very little memory of my childhood, so as I raise my kids the memories come back in the most bizarre ways. Like you're singing your baby a song, and you don't know why you remember it, but somehow you do. You don't even know the tune, but you sing it anyway and think, How am I singing this song?
BONO
Oprah Magazine, April 2004
Religion is the artifice, you know, the building, after God has left it sometimes, like Elvis has left the building. You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.
BONO
interview, Larry King Weekend, December 1, 2002
Hey if God will send his angels / And if God will send a sign / And if God will send his angels / Would everything be alright?
BONO
"If God Will Send His Angels", Pop
I have spoke with the tongue of Angels, I have held the hand of The Devil. It was warm in the night, I was cold as a stone.
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"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"
I have to come clean; I've broken a lot of laws, and the ones I haven't I've certainly thought about. I have sinned in thought, word, and deed. God forgive me. Actually God forgave me, but why would you? I'm here getting a doctorate, getting respectable, getting in the good graces of the powers that be, I hope it sends you students a powerful message: Crime does pay.
BONO
2004 PENN Address
Where you live should not decide whether you live or whether you die.
BONO
"Crumbs from Your Table"
It's a beautiful day...
Don't let it get away.
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"Beautiful Day"
Love is a temple, Love a higher law.
BONO
"One"
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.
BONO
Chicago Tribune, May 13, 2005
It's much harder to be relevant than it is to be successful.
BONO
interview, Larry King Weekend, 2002
One love, one blood
One life, you got to do what you should
One life, with each other
Sisters, brothers
One life, but we're not the same
We get to carry each other, carry each other.
BONO
"One"
I really remember John Lennon's Imagine. I guess I'm twelve; that's one of my first albums. That really set fire to me. It was like he was whispering in your ear -- his ideas of what's possible. Different ways of seeing the world.
BONO
Rolling Stone, November 3, 2005
I want to run, I want to hide, I want to tear down the walls that hold me inside. I want to reach out and touch the plains, Where the streets have no names.
BONO
"Where the Streets Have No Names"
Well, the heart that hurts is a heart that beats.
BONO
"One Step Closer"
The battle against AIDS is not a last decade issue. It's going to be the next decade issue. We need to finish the job, get new companies, new interest. It's kind of annoying and sometimes upsetting that these global health issues can become creatures of fashion. People think Aids is done -- it's not done.
BONO
The Irish Times, January 24, 2016
Every Artist is a Cannibal, every Poet is a Thief. All kill for inspiration and sing about their grief.
BONO
"The Fly"
History will judge us on how we respond to the AIDS emergency in Africa ... whether we stood around with watering cans and watched while a whole continent burst into flames ... or not.
BONO
attributed, Lines for Living
There's a truly great Irish poet. His name is Brendan Kennelly, and he has this epic poem called the Book of Judas, and there's a line in that poem that never leaves my mind, it says: "If you want to serve the age, betray it." What does that mean, to betray the age? Well to me betraying the age means exposing its conceits, it's foibles; it's phony moral certitudes. It means telling the secrets of the age and facing harsher truths.
BONO
2004 PENN Address