Bono Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.”

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

“When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.”

“I'm as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes - and I will dare to say to you that I don't think of myself as a celebrity per se.”

“Rock music is niche.”

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

“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.”

“At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.”

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

“I'm the man that brought you the mullet.”