Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
There is a root arrogance in any writer a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.
Bono
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Bono
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: May 10
Activist
Actor
Entrepreneur
Guitarist
Manufacturer
Screenwriter
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Dublin city
Paul Hewson
Paul David Hewson
Bono Vox
Anyone
Hugely
Going
Arrogant
Arrogance
Root
Assumption
Roots
Listen
Writer
More quotes by Bono
I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy.
Bono
Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
Bono
I do see the good in people, but I also see the bad --- I see it in myself. I know what I'm capable of. Good and bad. It's very imnportant that we make that clear. Just because I often find a way around the darkness doesn't mean tjat I don't know it's there. (Bono)
Bono
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
You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
Bono
The human heart is greedy it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.
Bono
Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
Bono
Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
Bono
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
In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
Bono
There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that's what was in our head for 'Get On Your Boots.' But actually, the song is much more punk rock.
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
What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
Bono
Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.
Bono
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.
Bono
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
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.
Bono
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.
Bono
God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.
Bono
Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.
Bono
