Bono Quotes

It’s a pumped-up person who believes they can live a life free from worldly concerns.

It’s our strengths rather than our weaknesses that often hold us back.

There are times when I will introduce him to worlds he might not have entered and times when he will protect me from worlds I should never enter.

that’s no longer necessary.

Al subir al ring, el púgil más preparado es el que ha intentado conocer a su adversario. Sobre todo si eres tú mismo.

now appreciate that that was a very Bob Dylan thing to do, to turn the tables completely. Bumping into Bob Dylan? What’s that like? It’s like bumping into Willie Shakespeare. I knew I was on hallowed ground, if not on solid ground. I was not worthy to tie the laces of his moccasins, but I caught my balance and challenged him to a chess game. That’s right — a chess game. Bob Dylan had invited me backstage, to

we humans have little or no influence on the two most important moments of our life. Being born and dying.

Andrew Rowen would end up in three U2 songs, “Running to Stand Still,” as well as “Bad” and “Raised by Wolves.

I'm one in four, and a real rock 'n' roll band is not run by the singer. Led maybe, but not run.

We're one but we're not the same
We get to carry each other, carry each other.

can’t change the world but I can change the world in me.

Patricide. The stuff of the great operas. U2’s music was never really rock ’n’ roll. Under its contemporary skin it’s opera — a big music, big emotions unlocked in the pop music of the day. A tenor out front who won’t accept he’s a baritone. A small man singing giant songs.

story that will sketch out the first U2 album, Boy, including its cover and final track, “Shadows and Tall Trees,” which borrows its title from chapter 7 of the book:

Great relationships, like great songs, deserve better than sentimentality.

Guggi not only gave me the name Bono; he gave everyone in his family new and surreal names.