Bono U2 Quotes

#1. Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

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#2. The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.

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#3. Where you live should not determine whether you live, or whether you die.

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#4. Bono has commented often that U2 did everything the wrong way around. Other bands started singing about girls and then found the issues in the cosmos and started singing about God; U2 started singing about God and eventually ended up doing a love album.

Steve Stockman

#5. 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.

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#6. After years of working in professional kitchens, and then spending so much time in a lot of different home kitchens, I realized that there's a huge gap in the market where you have people who develop cookware but who don't actually cook.

Curtis Stone

#7. Nothing makes us so beautiful as our smiles.

Debasish Mridha

#8. Even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.

Thornton Wilder

#9. If I'm in the stands at a U2 concert watching Bono, how can I capture this moment without interrupting it and making it fake?

Casey Neistat

#10. At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.

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#11. Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.

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#12. I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience.

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#13. Practice, practice, practice in speaking before an audience will tend to remove all fear of audiences, just as practice in swimming will lead to confidence and facility in the water. You must learn to speak by speaking.

Dale Carnegie

#14. To talk with God, no breath is lost. Talk on! To walk with God, no strength is lost. Walk on! To wait on God, no time is lost. Wait on!

E. Stanley Jones

#15. People who know our music, they know who you are. They've been in the dark room, they know you better than your best friend, because you don't sing like that to your best friend, you don't sing in their ear.

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#16. There are few people who define the word, 'rock star' better than U2's Bono. He's revered the world over not just for leading one of the biggest bands ever, but for his very public work on behalf of the underprivileged in Africa.

Daryn Kagan

#17. 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.

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#18. 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.

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

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#20. What was the point of living through history if you didn't record it?

Tatjana Soli

#21. But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America.

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#22. A wise person alway learn from every thing at any given morment.

Hamzat Haruna Ribah

#23. U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.

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#24. Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later

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#25. As it happened that Elizabeth had much rather not, she endeavoured in her answer to put an end to every entreaty and expectation of the kind. Such relief, however, as it was in her power to afford,

Jane Austen

#26. U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.

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#27. In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.

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#28. I don't like the name, U2, actually.

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