Frases de Bono Vox

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“Depois da tempestade, as cores aparecem.”

“Sou um exibicionista que adora pintar quadros daquilo que não vê. Um marido, um pai, amigo dos pobres, às vezes dos ricos. Um ativista vendedor ambulante de idéias. Jogador de xadrez, estrela de rock em part-time, cantor de ópera no grupo pop mais barulhento do mundo. Que tal?”

“Como estrela de rock, eu tenho dois instintos: quero divertir-me, e quero mudar o mundo. E tenho realmente a oportunidade de fazer ambas as coisas.”

“Lar é onde o coração está.”

“Lula é um grande homem, que mudou a agenda de Davos.”

“As pessoas já têm tantos discos do U2, por que vão querer mais um?”

“A música pode mudar o mundo porque pode mudar as pessoas.”

“Eu poderia subir no palco, abrir o zíper da minha calça e colocar meu pinto pra fora que as pessoas iriam achar que isso seria algum tipo de protesto.”

“Livros! Não sei se alguma vez vos disse isto, mas os livros são o melhor presente que uma pessoa pode dar a outra.”

“Quando olho para nossos primeiros dez anos, só vejo uma lista de fracassos.”

“Eu sou carioca!”

“Quando você tem 16 anos, acha que pode mudar o mundo. E às vezes você pode.”

“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.”

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

“The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.”

“Bowie was much more responsible for the aesthetic of punk rock than he's been given credit for, like, in fact, most interesting things in the Seventies and Eighties.”

“I Don't believe in Riches but You should see Where I live”

“Every Artist is a Cannibal, every Poet is a Thief. All kill for inspiration and sing about their grief”

“"We used to say, 'They have everything, but it.' We had nothing, but it".”

“This shitty world sometimes produces a rose
The scent of it lingers and then it just goes”

“And if You listen, I can call. And if You jump, You just might fall. And if You shout, I'll only hear You”

“Can you imagine your second album — the difficult second album — it's about God? Everyone is tearing their hair out and Chris Blackwell says, "It's okay. There's Bob Marley and Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan, it's a tradition. We can get through it.”

“Of science and the human heart, there is no limit.”

“An intellecutal tortoise racing with your bullet train.”

“What are the ideas right now worth betraying? What are the lies we tell ourselves now?”

“I'll show you a place, high on the desert plain. Where the streets have no name”

“Jesus never let me down
You know Jesus used to show me the score
Then they put Jesus in show business
Now it's hard to get in the door, angel.”

“Beneath the noise, below the din,
I hear a voice, it's whispering,
"In science and in medicine,
"I was a stranger, you took me in."”

“All is quiet on New Year's Day”

“Some people got high rises on their backs.
I'm not broke but you can see the cracks.
You can make me perfect again.
All because of you
I am.”

“There was a badness that had its way. But love wasn't lost. Love will have its day.”

“These goals — clean water for all; school for every child; medicine for the afflicted, an end to extreme and senseless poverty — these are not just any goals; they are the Millennium Development goals, which this country supports. And they are more than that. They are the Beatitudes for a Globalised World.”

“So I humbly accept the honor, keeping in mind the words of a British playwright, John Mortimer it was, "No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense and relatively clean fingernails." Well at best I've got one of the two of those.”

“I'm the first to admit that there's something unnatural… something unseemly… about rock stars mounting the pulpit and preaching at presidents, and then disappearing to their villas in the South of France. Talk about a fish out of water. It was weird enough when Jesse Helms showed up at a U2 concert… but this is really weird, isn't it?”

“You know that Johnny Cash song "A Boy Named Sue" where he gives the kid a girl's name, and the kid is beaten up at every stage in his life by macho guys, but in the end he becomes the toughest man. … By not encouraging me to be a musician, even though that's all he ever wanted to be, he's made me one. By telling me never to have big dreams or else, that to dream is to be disappointed, he made me have big dreams. By telling me that the band would only last five minutes or ten minutes — we're still here.”

“All That You Can't Leave Behind and How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb are both really mad long titles. As I've just said them, I've just realised how ridiculous the titles are.”

“Choose your enemies carefully ‘cos they will define you
Make them interesting ‘cos in some ways they will mind you
They’re not there in the beginning but when your story ends
Gonna last with you longer than your friend”

“I can stand up for hope, faith, love
But while I'm getting over certainty
Stop helping God across the road
Like a little old lady”

“Love is not the easy thing…
The only baggage you can bring
Is all that you can't leave behind.”

“When we were growing up, the 45 single was the heart of rock-and-roll and in many regards still is. It's the hardest thing to pull off. The surest sign that a band is growing stale and running out of creative ideas is when it turns to prog. And I well remember the 1970s when prog almost destroyed rock music. It's the mold growing on a congealed band on its last legs. Indeed, it still lurks among us in new, insidious forms like indie. The few times U2 has attempted prog, we've tempered it with good songwriting.”

“We're One but We're not the same. Well, We hurt each other and We'll do it again. You say love is a temple, Love a higher law. Love is a temple, Love a higher law. You ask Me to enter, then You make Me crawl. And I can't be holding on to what you got, when all You've got is hurt.”

“We actually aren't able to play other people's songs. The one Stones song we tried to play was "Jumpin' Jack Flash." It was really bad. So we started writing our own — it was easier.”

“My name is Bono and I am a rock star.”