Bono famous quotes

In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
-- Bono

#Stars #Rocks #Views

In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
-- Bono

#Dream #Swim #Sorrow

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

#Jesus #Hands #Looks

The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.
-- Bono

#Christian #Powerful #Years

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

#Ends #Pops #Folks

God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.
-- Bono

#Ideas #Might #Tiny

Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
-- Bono

#World #Awful #Kind

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
-- Bono

#Love #Inspirational #Motivational

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.
-- Bono

#Mother #Father #Sunday

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
-- Bono

#Enemy #Building

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

#Inspirational #Stars #Fun

The less you know, the more you believe.
-- Bono

#Believe #Humility #Favourite

Music can change the world because it can change people.
-- Bono

#Inspirational #Change #Music

God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.
-- Bono

#Religious #Moving #Pace

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.
-- Bono

#Kids #Knowing God #Company

You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.
-- Bono

#Dream #Strong #Real

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
-- Bono

#Beautiful #Respect #Being Yourself

It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
-- Bono

#Impossible #Exposing Yourself #Abandon

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

#Brother #Distance #Unity

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
-- Bono

#Book #Giving #Persons

God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.
-- Bono

#Inspirational #Mother #Children

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.
-- Bono

#Art #Jobs #Consciousness

It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.
-- Bono

#Air #Poverty #Scripture

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.
-- Bono

#Equality #Rights #Talking

I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.
-- Bono

#Song #Writing #Darkness

I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.
-- Bono

#Wish #Trying #Serious

Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I suppose. But one of the reasons I'm attracted to people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Christ, to pacifism, is because naturally, I'm the guy that would not turn the other cheek - but, when people see you're attracted to that, they think you are that.
-- Bono

#Kings #Real #Thinking

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
-- Bono

#Inspirational #Simple #Understanding

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

#Littles #Moments #Lost

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
-- Bono

#Ambition #Growth #Chivalry

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

#Fire #Flames #Needs

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it's mad that people like me are listened to - you know, rap stars and movie stars.
-- Bono

#Stars #Rap #Silly

There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.
-- Bono

#Art #Retirement #Mastery

Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle... and not just in the sense of money, by the way; the Beatles are untouchable - those billionaire reports are a joke.
-- Bono

#Boys #Way #Untouchables

Whenever I see grace, I’m moved.
-- Bono

#Grace #Moved

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

#Birthday #Dream #Song

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

#Ocean #Mean #Eye

Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
-- Bono

#Dream #World #Want

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

#Positive #Music #Song

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
-- Bono

#Sweet #Cynical #Teeth

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

#Kissing #Past #Rocks

Perspective is the cure for depression.
-- Bono

#Perspective #Cures

Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
-- Bono

#Christian #Jesus #Doe

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
-- Bono

#Thoughtful #Perspective #Answers

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
-- Bono

#People #Different #Littles

I wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house.
-- Bono

#Running #Moving #House

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

#Emotional #Feelings #Originality

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
-- Bono

#Music #Rocks #Rock N Roll

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.
-- Bono

#Dad #Overcoming #Today

Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.
-- Bono

#Baby #Son #Men

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
-- Bono

#Commitment #Equality #Ideas

Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
-- Bono

#Inspirational #Life #Positive

It's much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won't keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don't know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we've got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, 'Is this it? Are we still relevant?'
-- Bono

#Honesty #Successful #Thinking