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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• 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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• Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.

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  Home, People, World

  "The Resource Miracle" by Bono, content.time.com. May 28, 2012.

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

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  Ghetto, Rocks, Self

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• U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.

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  Wife, Aids, Ethiopia

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

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  Watches, Victim, Aids

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• Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

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  Thinking, Understanding, Corporations

  "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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• The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.

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  Artist, Rolling, Albums

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

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  Children, Pops

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