Frases de Bono Vox página 4

“A sociedade precisa de heróis, a mídia quer criá-los. Mas se eu aceitar ser um, vocês me destroem.”

“O U2 nunca foi bobo nos negócios. Não ficamos o dia inteiro sentados pensando em paz mundial.”

“Ser uma celebridade é ridículo, mas é uma moeda que eu quero usar bem.”

“Pela primeira vez na história, temos o dinheiro e o know-how tecnológico necessários para resolver os problemas da África. Mas será que temos a vontade?”

“Se você quiser salvar uma era, traia-a. Exponha seus conceitos, suas manias e suas falsas certezas morais.”

“Hoje passamos a ser portugueses.”

“Nós não devemos ser responsáveis, nós devemos ser irresponsáveis (artisticamente falando)… o rock n' roll deve ser irresponsável.”

“Quando você não está escrevendo músicas há duas coisas que você não quer escrever: política e religião. Mas a gente acaba escrevendo sobre os dois.”

em 1989.

“"Estou com ciúmes porque os comediantes tomaram o antigo papel dos roqueiros: dizem as coisas que ninguém dizia" -Bono”

“This moment in time will be remembered for three things: the war against terror, sure; the Internet, probably; and how we let an entire continent, Africa, burst into flames and stood around with water in cans.”

Bono Vox: Frases em inglês

“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”

CNN Larry King Weekend (2002)

“And if You look, You look through Me. And when You talk, You talk at Me. And when I touch You, You don't feel anything”

"One"
Lyrics, Achtung Baby (1991)

“20 years on I'm not that interested in charity. I'm interested in justice. There's a difference. Africa needs justice as much as it needs charity.
Equality for Africa is a big idea. It's a big expensive idea.”

"Stay (Faraway,So Close)
Lyrics, Zooropa (1993)

“It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways.”

PENN Address (2004)

“I could never take a chance of losing love to find romance.”

"Mysterious Ways"
Lyrics, Achtung Baby (1991)

“You don't have to put up a fight, you don't have to always be right.
Let me take some of the punches for you tonight.
Listen to me now, I need to let you know
You don't have to go it alone.
And it's you when I look in the mirror.
It's you when I pick up the phone.
Sometimes you can't make it on your own.”

"A Man and A Woman"
Lyrics, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)

“What's interesting is, in the months leading up to this, I was probably at the lowest ebb in my life. I was feeling just teenage angst. I didn't know if I wanted to continue living — that kind of despair. I was praying to a God I didn't know was listening.”

"Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own"
Lyrics, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)

“You heard me in my tune when I just heard confusion.”

On the forming of the band U2
Rolling Stone interview (2005)

“Its no secret that a Conscience can sometimes be a Pest, Its no Secret that Ambition bites the Nails of Success”

Lyrics, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)

“It's not a hill it's a mountain, as you start out the climb”

"The Fly"
Lyrics, Achtung Baby (1991)

“Africa makes a mockery of what we say, at least what I say, about equality and questions our pieties and our commitments because there's no way to look at what's happening over there and it's effect on all of us and conclude that we actually consider Africans as our equals before God. There is no chance.”

I'll Go Crazy if I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
Lyrics, No Line On The Horizon (2009)

“What you don't have you don't need it now
What you don't know you can feel it somehow”

PENN Address (2004)

“We can be the generation that no longer accepts that an accident of latitude determines whether a child lives or dies. But will we be that generation?”

"Beautiful Day"
Lyrics, All That You Can't Leave Behind (2000)

“Can you hear me when I sing?
You're the reason I sing.
You're the reason the opera is in me
Well, hey now
Still got to let you know
A house just don't make a home
Don't leave me here alone”

Foreword to The End of Poverty (2005) by Jeffrey Sachs

“I have to come clean; I've broken a lot of laws, and the ones I haven't I've certainly thought about. I have sinned in thought, word, and deed. God forgive me. Actually God forgave me, but why would you? I'm here getting a doctorate, getting respectable, getting in the good graces of the powers that be, I hope it sends you students a powerful message: Crime does pay.”

"Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own"
Lyrics, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)

“A man will rise, a man will fall. From the shear face of love like a fly from the wall”

PENN Address (2004)

“The thing about The Dubliners is — line'em up, the hardest rock'n'roll bands in the world, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Oasis, Nirvana, U2 — we're all a bunch of girls next to The Dubliners.”

"The Fly"
Lyrics, Achtung Baby (1991)

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

As quoted on Ronnie Drew (2008), talking about Irish folk band The Dubliners

“Great ideas and great melodies have a lot in common”

"One"
Lyrics, Achtung Baby (1991)

“Walk on, walk on
What you got they can't steal it
No they can't even feel it
Walk on, walk on…
Stay safe tonight.”

CNN Larry King Weekend (2002)

“There's many lost but, tell me, who has won?”

Lyrics, All That You Can't Leave Behind (2000), Walk On

“We're gonna make it all the way to the light,
but I know i'll go crazy if I don't go crazy tonight”

"Sunday Bloody Sunday"
Lyrics, War (1983)

“I really, really do believe it. I just want you to know, I think this is obvious, but I'm not really going in for the warm fuzzy feeling thing, I'm not a hippy, I do not have flowers in my hair, I come from punk rock, The Clash wore army boots not Birkenstocks. I believe America can do this! I believe that this generation can do this. In fact I want to hear an argument about why we shouldn't.”

I'll Go Crazy if I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
Lyrics, No Line On The Horizon (2009)

“When John Lennon sings, "Oh, my love/For the first time in my life/My eyes are wide open" — these songs have an intimacy for me that's not just between people, I realize now, not just sexual intimacy. A spiritual intimacy.”

PENN Address (2004)

“And though your soul it can't be bought, your mind can wander. I can feel your love teaching me how, how to kneel.”

Rolling Stone interview (2005)

“Well, here we are, the Irish in America. The Irish have been coming to America for years, going back to the great famine when the Irish were on the run from starvation and a British Government that couldn't care less. Right up to today, you know, there are more Irish immigrants here in America today than ever — some illegal, some legal. A lot of them are just running from high unemployment, some run from the Troubles in Northern Ireland, from the hatred of the H Blocks, torture. Others from wild acts of terrorism like we had today in a town called Enniskillen, where eleven people lie dead, and many more injured, on a Sunday Bloody Sunday.”

"Vertigo"
Lyrics, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)

“It's a beautiful day…
Don't let it get away”

Statements made before a live performance of Sunday Bloody Sunday, a song first recorded on the U2 album War (1983)
Rattle and Hum (1987)

“How long, how long must we sing this song?”

"Beautiful Day"
Lyrics, All That You Can't Leave Behind (2000)

“religion is the artifice, you know, the building, after God has left it sometimes, like Elvis has left the building. You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.”

"Sunday Bloody Sunday"
Lyrics, War (1983)