Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono
I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- Bono
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- Bono
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono
I'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- Bono
There are righteous people working
in a whole rainbow of belief systems -
from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters
to charismatic Catholics.
- Bono
Love interrupts, if you like,
the consequences of your actions,
which in my case is very good news indeed,
because I've done a lot of stupid stuff.
- Bono
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
God's Spirit moves through us and the world
at a pace that can never be constricted
by any one religious paradigm.
I love that.
- Bono
I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono
To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- Bono
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
It's hard to believe, hard to be a believer,
when you see the way the things are in the world.
But I am a believer!
- Bono
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
Everywhere I look, I see the evidence of a creator.
But I don't see it as religion,
which has cut Irish people in two.
I don't see Jesus Christ as being
in any part of a religion.
Religion to me is almost like when God leaves -
and people devise a set of rules to fill the space.
- Bono
I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono
There are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
I am still amazed at how big, how enormous
a love and mystery God is -
and how small are the minds
that attempt to corral
this life force into rules and taboos,
cults and sects.
- Bono
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono
Religion can be the enemy of God.
- 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
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
You have to open yourself up,
you have to be raw;
and you have to reveal yourself,
and sometimes it's very difficult.
- Bono
Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono
Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono
You hold onto religion, you know,
rules, regulations, traditions.
I think what God is interested in
is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.
- Bono
The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono
I come from Ireland and I've seen the damage of religious warfare.
I am a believer. I don't wear the badge on the outside
but it is on the inside.
- Bono
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
Now at what point does an unpopular conviction
interfere with your own human rights?
Forced female circumcision, for instance.
The Catholic Church's stance on contraception.
The list goes on. You know, God has some really weird kids,
and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.
- Bono
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
We can, if we get up off our ass, change the world.
- Bono
People should be angry about a lot of things
and the peace-and-love thing
doesn't sit comfortably with me at all.
- Bono
U2 is an original species...
there are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music
played when soldiers go into battle.
- Heinrich Heine
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.
- George Carlin
Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You always feel better when you sing.
Music touches people's hearts.
You know, it doesn't go through your mental capacity,
it just moves you and it will let you cry.
It's worth it doing a show
and when you touch a crowd
and move yourself at the same
- Jewel
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Music takes us out of the actual
and whispers to us dim secrets
that startle our wonder as to who we are.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
Stirred awake by the exquisite music
of my own relentless commitment.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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