48 Bono Quotes for You to Enjoy

Bono

Irish Musician

Born: May 10, 1960

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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. Bono

Finished Our Online Until Real Stores Radio Album

Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is. Bono

You Money Out Something Doing Selling Want Really

Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities. Bono

Leadership Freedom Man Thought Heroism Incredible Had He Badly Self-Control Qualities Hand Upper Upper Hand Mandela Who Suffered

The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated. Bono

Saying Health You Sometimes Example Believe Press Kind Could Entrepreneurs Argue Roads Idea For Example Course Because Priority Issue African Children Want Public Public Health Should Ridiculous Right Millions

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

You Ambition Off End In The End

I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I've learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure. Bono

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

Sweet Teeth Feel Like Listen Radio Rotting

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

Simple Christ Made Understanding Has-Been Been Person Scriptures

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

Future You Honesty Will Every Think Easier Relevant Tricks Stay Record Know Got How Still Than Stadiums While Might Much Successful Popular Fill Keep

I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation. Bono

World Situation Respond Nelson Nelson Mandela Demanded Since Involved Because Concerts Got Been Debt Cancellation Mandela African Working Desmond

I'm actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular. Bono

People Convictions Unpopular More More And More More People Like Who Actually Starting

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

You Justice Fool Commitment Equality Else Our Way Would See Allowed Idea Look Concern Because Makes Conclude Questions Africa Happen Happening Anywhere Anywhere Else Farce Doubts Ever Honest

I'm never nervous. Bono

Nervous Never

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS. Bono

Work Politics You AIDS Both Got Victims Against Watch

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

It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head. Bono

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