Bono Quotes - Page 6

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• 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.

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  Ghetto, Rocks, Hip Hop

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• It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

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  Pain, Real, Justice

  Keynote Address at the 54th National Prayer Breakfast, delivered 2 February 2006, The Hilton Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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• I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.

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  Issues, People, Divides

  "Bono Bites Back". Interview with Adam Block, www.motherjones.com. May 1, 1989.

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• There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that's what was in our head for 'Get On Your Boots.' But actually, the song is much more punk rock.

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  Song, Thinking, Rocks

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• 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.

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  Children, Believe, Ideas

  "Bono: 'There's a difference between cosying up to power and being close to power'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2013.

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• 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.

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  Morning, Wake Up, Noble

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• I'm a singer, not a politician, and I think you don't want the two to get confused. It's not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

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  Confused, Thinking, Talking

  "Relief Pitcher". Interview with Susan Dominus, archive.nytimes.com.

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• Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.

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  Christian, Emergencies, Conservative

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• Let's not bequeath the pop charts to just children.

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  Children, Pops

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