Bono U2 Quotes

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Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later
Bono
In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
Bono
Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.
Bono (U2 by U2 (0000))
Where you live should not determine whether you live, or whether you die.
Bono
At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.
Bono
For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment.
Bono (U2 by U2)
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
Bono
To touch is to heal, to hurt is to steal, if you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel - on your knees boy!
Bono
Someone has likened prayer to being on a rough sea in a small boat with no oars. All you have is a rope that, somewhere in the distance, is attached to the port. With that rope you can pull yourself closer to God. Songs are my prayers.
Bono (Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story)
Terry didn’t really do deference around famous people. I was once in a position, in Dublin, to introduce him to Bono from U2, explaining, as I did so, that Bono owned the hotel we were standing in. ‘Ah, good,’ Terry said to Bono. ‘Can you get me a milkshake?’ Which he did.
Rob Wilkins (Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography)
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.
Bono (Bono on Bono)
The most profound voice of any musician I have ever heard. Joe (Strummer) took his message to the world, and the world listened. He managed to influence more than one generation with his innovative and determined manner, and I am not alone in repeatedly turning to his thoughts and lyrics when searching for inspiration. The Clash was the greatest rock band. They wrote the rule book for U2.
Bono
The stuff of the great operas. U2’s music was never really rock ’n’ roll. Under its contemporary skin it’s opera—a big music, big emotions unlocked in the pop music of the day.
Bono (Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story)
The moment of surrender is the moment you choose to lose control of your life, the split second of powerlessness where you trust that some kind of "higher power" better be in charge, because you certainly aren't.
Bono (Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story)
right to use Apple Corps for their record and business holdings. Alas, this did not resolve the issue of getting the Beatles onto iTunes. For that to happen, the Beatles and EMI Music, which held the rights to most of their songs, had to negotiate their own differences over how to handle the digital rights. “The Beatles all want to be on iTunes,” Jobs later recalled, “but they and EMI are like an old married couple. They hate each other but can’t get divorced. The fact that my favorite band was the last holdout from iTunes was something I very much hoped I would live to resolve.” As it turned out, he would. Bono Bono, the lead singer of U2, deeply appreciated Apple’s marketing muscle. He was confident that his Dublin-based band was still the best in the world, but in 2004 it was trying, after almost thirty years together, to reinvigorate its image. It had produced an exciting new album with a song that the band’s lead guitarist, The Edge, declared to be “the mother of all rock tunes.” Bono knew he needed to find a way to get it some traction, so he placed a call to Jobs. “I wanted something specific from Apple,” Bono recalled. “We had a song called ‘Vertigo’ that featured an aggressive guitar riff that I knew would be contagious, but only if people were exposed to it many, many times.” He was worried that the era of promoting a song through airplay on the radio was over. So Bono visited Jobs at home in Palo Alto, walked around the garden, and made an unusual pitch. Over the years U2 had spurned
Walter Isaacson (Steve Jobs)
This is an enormous claim, but there is a certain logic to it. One of the most recent people to note this logic is Bono, the lead singer of U2, in a conversation with Michka Assayas: Assayas: Christ has his rank among the world’s great thinkers. But Son of God, isn’t that far-fetched? Bono: No, it’s not far-fetched to me. Look, the secular response to the Christ story always goes like this: He was a great prophet, obviously a very interesting guy, had a lot to say along the lines of other great prophets, be they Elijah, Muhammad, Buddha, or Confucius. But actually Christ doesn’t allow you that. He doesn’t let you off that hook. Christ says, No. I’m not saying I’m a teacher, don’t call me teacher. I’m not saying I’m a prophet. I’m saying: ‘I’m the Messiah.’ I’m saying: ‘I am God incarnate.’ And people say: No, no, please, just be a prophet. A prophet we can take. You’re a bit eccentric. We’ve had John the Baptist eating locusts and wild honey, we can handle that. But don’t mention the ‘M’ word! Because, you know, we’re gonna have to crucify you. And he goes: No, no, I know you’re expecting me to come back with an army and set you free from these creeps, but actually I am the Messiah. At this point, everyone starts staring at their shoes, and says: Oh, my God, he’s gonna keep saying this. So what you’re left with is either Christ was who He said He was – the Messiah – or a complete nutcase. I mean, we’re talking nutcase on the level of Charles Manson. . . . I’m not joking here. The idea that the entire course of civilisation for over half of the globe could have its fate changed and turned upside-down by a nutcase, for me that’s far-fetched . . . Bono is describing how Jesus’ statements about himself force us all into an all-or-nothing choice.
Timothy J. Keller (The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism)
Bono, the lead singer of U2, said: “The idea that there’s a force of love and logic behind the universe is overwhelming to start with…. But the idea that that same love and logic would choose to describe itself as a baby born in…straw and poverty is genius, and brings me to my knees, literally…. I am just in awe of that…. It’s the thing that makes me a believer.
Sharon Hinck (Mornings with Jesus: 365 Devotions to Start Each Day)
A small rumpus erupted over a review of ‘Where The Streets Have No Name’ by U2, the biggest-band-in-the-world and drearily po-faced windbags forever blubbing on a cactus. There were, I pointed out, ‘no streets in the desert’ and deemed Bono, somehow, ‘a goon’. Sackfuls of hate mail arrived from U2-devoted Smash Hits viewers while a headline in an Irish newspaper bellowed, ‘GOON BONO BLASTED BY TOP POP MAG.
Sylvia Patterson (I'm Not with the Band: A Writer's Life Lost in Music)
My point is that the world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape” (Bono, “Because We Can”).
Timothy D. Neufeld (U2: Rock 'n' Roll to Change the World (Tempo: A Rowman & Littlefield Music Series on Rock, Pop, and Culture))
Patricide. The stuff of the great operas. U2’s music was never really rock ’n’ roll. Under its contemporary skin it’s opera—a big music, big emotions unlocked in the pop music of the day. A tenor out front who won’t accept he’s a baritone. A small man singing giant songs.
Bono (Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story)
story that will sketch out the first U2 album, Boy, including its cover and final track, “Shadows and Tall Trees,” which borrows its title from chapter 7 of the book:
Bono (Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story)
Radar, his youngest brother, who appeared on the cover of two of U2’s early albums, Boy and War.
Bono (Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story)
Andrew Rowen would end up in three U2 songs, “Running to Stand Still,” as well as “Bad” and “Raised by Wolves.
Bono (Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story)
It is not an exaggeration to say U2 began to write our own songs because we couldn’t play other people’s. Baby steps for a baby band.
Bono (Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story)
I remain more suspicious of religion than most people who'd never darken the door of a church.
Bono (Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story)
U2’s music was never really rock ’n’ roll. Under its contemporary skin it’s opera—a big music, big emotions unlocked in the pop music of the day. A tenor out front who won’t accept he’s a baritone. A small man singing giant songs. Wailing, keening, trying to explain the unexplainable. Trying to release himself and anyone who will listen from the prison of a human experience that cannot explain grief.
Bono (Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story)
Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience
Bono (Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story)
the only true way to be victorious is to surrender. To each other. To love. To the higher power.
Bono (Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story)
from U2’s point of view, John Hume was the Martin Luther King of the Irish Troubles. Hume also set up the credit union in Derry, which helped Catholics into housing in
Bono (Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story)
They think that the record company came up with the name U2! Or they think that our manager was the person who planned our pathway to success. It couldn't be further from the truth. Paul McGuinness mentored us in principles that proved to be the best there were, and the record company helped us in our journey. But we are very much in charge of our own destiny, and have been always. I think that's really important.
Bono (Bono In Conversation With Michka Assayas - 2006 publication.)
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
Showbiz is shamanism, music is worship. Whether its worship of women or their designer, the world or its destroyer, whether it comes from that ancient place we call soul or simply the spinal cortex, whether the prayers are on fire with dumb rage or dove-like desire, the smoke goes upwards, to God or something you replace God with-- usually yourself.
Bono of U2
Terry didn’t really do deference around famous people. I was once in a position, in Dublin, to introduce him to Bono from U2, explaining, as I did so, that Bono owned the hotel we were standing in. ‘Ah, good,’ Terry said to Bono. ‘Can you get me a milkshake?’ Which he did.
Rob Wilkins (Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography)
The right to appear ridiculous is something I hold dear
U2 (U2 - No Line on the Horizon)