Bono, who is popular for being the lead vocalist and lyricist of the rock music band U2, has influenced millions through his writings and music.
Bono has been fighting for social justice for a long time now. It is for this reason that he got even more famous.
In the same light, he stressed that in general, people should try to respect others and live in a spirit of harmony. In this article, we will try to change our perspective by inculcating what he has tried to convey through some of his quotes!
Famous Quotes by Bono
Here are the most famous sayings by Bono!
“Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.” - Bono.
“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.
“It's much harder to be relevant than it is to be successful.” - Bono, In an interview in 'Larry King Weekend', 2002.
“Whenever I see grace, I'm moved.” - Bono.
“In the end, it is certainly not celebrities or personalities who change the world… it is social movements.” - Bono, At ONE and (RED)’s 10th-anniversary celebration.
“Love will have its day.” - Bono, 'North and South of the River'.
“I have climbed highest mountains, I have run through the field, only to be with you. I have run, I have crawled, I have scaled these city walls, only to be with you. But I still haven't found what I'm looking for.” - Bono, 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For'.
“I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy.” - Bono.
“Well, the heart that hurts is a heart that beats.” - Bono, 'One Step Closer'.
“We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.” - Bono.
“For me, it's a puzzle. I hear strains of a melody, and only when I work it out to its end can I be at peace. Until then it's like a twitch.” - Bono, 'Oprah Magazine', April 2004.
“Whenever you see darkness, there is an extraordinary opportunity for the light to burn brighter.” - Bono.
“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.
“I don't believe in riches, but you should see where I live.” - Bono, 'God Part II'.
“Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.” - Bono.
“The lyrics aren't literature. they're just part of the story.” - Bono.
“The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.” - Bono, 'PENN Address', 2004.
“Where you live should not determine whether you live, or whether you die.” - Bono.
“I don't believe the Devil, I don't believe his book, but the truth is not the same without the lies he made up.” - Bono, 'God Part II'.
“The strangest thing has happened. I really missed my dog. That's never happened to me before. You know, on a long tour you do hear people saying they miss their pets. I never have. But last night I started really missing my dog. It's very odd, 'cause I don't have a dog.” - Bono.
“Idealism is under siege beset by materialism, narcissism, and all the other isms of indifference. Bagism, Shaggism. Raggism. Not-ism, graduation-ism, chism-ism, I don't know. Where's John Lennon when you need him?” - Bono, 'PENN Address', 2004.
“Opportunities do not lie around waiting to be discovered. They need to be produced.” - Bono.
Quotes By Bono About Music
Bono's songs and lyrics possess the capability to change people. Let us see how!
(In his lyrics, Bono often speaks of peace and hope.)
“Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.” - Bono, 'On the Move'.
“Great ideas and great melodies have a lot in common.” - Bono, In an interview published in 'Larry King Weekend', December 1, 2002.
“If I don't understand it, it must be art.” - Bono.
“Well, one of the things that hits have and that great music always has, you know—the music feels like it was already there.” - Bono, 'Oprah Magazine', April 2004.
"Every artist is a cannibal,
Every poet is a thief,
All kill for inspiration,
And then sing about the grief."
- Bono, 'The Fly'.
“You know, if you're a musician or if you're a songwriter, somehow when you hear one note, you hear another one.” - Bono, In an interview published in 'Larry King Weekend', December 1, 2002.
“As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.” - Bono, 'Chicago Tribune', May 13, 2005.
“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.
“I think belief in your script is essential. I am a salesman. I come from a long line of traveling salespeople on my mother's side. And I think I'm a good salesman of ideas, songs, melodies if I believe in them.” - Bono, 'The Charlie Rose Show', May 16, 2013.
“How long, how long must we sing this song?” - Bono.
“The truth is at the root of every piece of creativity. So if you're truthful about your situation, whatever it is as an artist—whether it's despair, whether it's hope, whether it's ambition—suddenly you're there.” - Bono, 'Oprah Magazine', April 2004.
“Music can change the world because it can change people.” - Bono.
Quotes By Bono About Faith
Let Bono's quotes on faith make you feel blessed!
“It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.” - Bono, 'Bono: In Conversation With Michka Assayas'.
“God forgive me. Actually, God forgave me, but why would you?” - Bono, 'PENN Address', 2004.
“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.
“The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.” - Bono, 'Rolling Stone', November 3, 2005.
“Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.” - Bono.
“I'm wary of faith outside of actions. I'm wary of religiosity that ignores the wider world.” - Bono, 'Rolling Stone', November 3, 2005.
“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.
“History, like God, is watching what we do.” - Bono, 'National Prayer Breakfast', February 2, 2006.
“Even though I'm a believer, I still find it really hard to be around other believers. They make me nervous, they make me twitch. I sorta watch my back.” - Bono.
"Hey if God will send his angels
And if God will send a sign
And if God will send his angels
Would everything be alright?"
- Bono, 'If God Will Send His Angels'.
“The God I believe in isn't short on cash, mister.” - Bono.
“It's very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.” - Bono, 'Focus on the Family' (Radio Interview), June 25, 2013.
“At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.” - Bono.
“...one thing on which we can all agree, among all faiths and ideologies, is that God is with the vulnerable and poor.” - Bono, 'On the Move'.
"I have spoke with the tongue of Angels,
I have held the hand of The Devil.
It was warm in the night,
I was cold as a stone."
- Bono, 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For'.
Interesting Quotes By Bono About Life
The greatest gift ever is life itself. Let's see what Bono has said about it!
“Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later.” - Bono.
"I want to run, I want to hide,
I want to tear down the walls that hold me inside.
I want to reach out and touch the plains,
Where the streets have no names."
- Bono, 'Where The Streets Have No Names'.
“Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.” - Bono, 'U2 By U2.'.
“The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.” - Bono.
"One love, one blood
One life, you got to do what you should
One life, with each other
Sisters, brothers
One life, but we're not the same
We get to carry each other, carry each other."
- Bono, 'One'.
“Truth is beauty. That can be a hard thing to say because some things are not so attractive on the surface. But by owning up to them, we change them—just by speaking them.” - Bono, 'Oprah Magazine', April 2004.
''My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them". -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.
“In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.” - Bono.
“Teenage kids have no sense of mortality — yours or theirs.” - Bono, 'Rolling Stone', November 3, 2005.
“Perspective is the cure for depression.” - Bono.
“I could never take a chance of losing love to find romance.” - Bono, 'A Man and A Woman'.
“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.
“Don't believe them when they tell me there ain't no cure. The Rich stay healthy, the Sick stay poor.” - Bono, 'God Part II'.
“It's not only joy as an act of defiance; it's business as usual as an act of defiance. This is just: Do your thing.” - Bono.
“What are the ideas right now worth betraying? What are the lies we tell ourselves now?” - Bono, 'PENN Address', 2004.
“To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.” - Bono.
“What does that mean, to betray the age? Well to me betraying the age means exposing its conceits, its foibles; it's phony moral certitudes. It means telling the secrets of the age and facing harsher truths.” - Bono, 'PENN Address', 2004.
