Bono Quotes

Born 10 May 1960
Musician, activist, philanthropist

• BONO QUOTE OF THE PAGE
  To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
• Celebrity is currency, so I wanted to use mine effectively.
• The attention of the world might sometimes be elsewhere, but history is watching. It's taking notes. And it's going to hold us to account, each of us
• Music can change the world because it can change people.
• 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.
• So my question I suppose is: What's the big idea? What's your big idea? What are you willing to spend your moral capital, your intellectual capital, your cash, your sweat equity in pursuing outside of the walls of the University of Pennsylvania?
• My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
• We have to have a very simple standard of doing business, which is: If you are not tackling corruption, if you are not allowing civil society to do their job, we are not giving you any money. Outside of famine, and outside of those kinds of catastrophes, which need money pumped in no matter who's in charge. We are not marching the streets to redecorate presidential palaces for anyone.
• But you know what's amazing? Everywhere I go, I see very much the same thing. I see the same compassion for people who live half a world away. I see the same concern about events beyond these borders. And, increasingly, I see the same conviction that we can and we must join together to stop the scourge of AIDS and poverty.
• Isn't equality a son of a bitch to follow through on. Isn't Love thy neighbour" in the global village so inconvenient?
• Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
• Yes, I sometimes fail, but at least I'm willing to experiment.
• We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
• Americans, Irish people, are good at charity. We like to give, and we give a lot, even those who can't afford it. But justice is a higher standard.
• But we've got to follow through on our ideals or we betray something at the heart of who we are. Outside these gates, and even within them, the culture of idealism is under siege, beset by materialism and narcissism and all the other isms" of indifference.
• Music was an alarm bell for me, it woke me up to the world.
• It would be wrong for me to say, `Yes, we can change the world with a song.` But every time I try writing, that`s where I`m at. I`m not stupid. I`m aware of the futility of rock & roll music, but I`m also aware of its power.
• I'm not in a position to be seen as a spokesman for a generation. I mean, how can you be a spokesman of a generation if you've nothing to say, other than 'Help!
• Well, the going rate for change is not cheap. Big ideas are expensive.
• It's not enough to rage against the lie...you've got to replace it with the truth.
• Sing the melody line you hear in your own head, remember, you don't owe anybody any explanations, you don't owe your parents any explanations, you don't owe your professors any explanations. You know I used to think the future was solid or fixed, something you inherited like an old building that you move into when the previous generation moves out or gets chased out. But it's not. The future is not fixed, it's fluid. You can build your own building, or hut or condo, whatever.
• When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.
• Look, I`m sick of Bono and I AM Bono.
• When you sing, you make people vulnerable to change in their lives. You make yourself vulnerable to change in your life. But in the end, you've got to become the change you want to see in the world.
• On receiving an honorary British knighthood: You have permission to call me anything you want - except sir, all right? Lord of lords, your demigodness, that`ll do.

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