All Bono Quotes
Music can change the world because it can change people.
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Music
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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
63% of people like this quote
U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
Bono
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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.
Bono
59% of people like this quote
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
57% of people like this quote
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
Bono
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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
Bono
53% of people like this quote
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
Bono
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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.
Bono
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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
51% of people like this quote
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
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To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
Bono
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