Frases de Bono Vox página 5

“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”

“God is love and love is evolution's best day”

Bono Vox: Frases em inglês

“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.”

Stand Up Comedy
Lyrics, No Line On The Horizon (2009)

“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.”

Rolling Stone interview (2005)

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

Rolling Stone interview (2005)

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

"God Part II"
Lyrics, Rattle And Hum(1988)

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

"The Fly"
Lyrics, Achtung Baby (1991)

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

CNN Larry King Weekend (2002)

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

Cedars Of Lebanon
Lyrics, No Line On The Horizon (2009)

“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.”

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

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

About the album October (album) (1981) in a speech accepting induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame http://www.u2station.com/news/archives/2005/03/transcript_u2s.php (17 March 2005)

“An intellecutal tortoise racing with your bullet train.”

Lyrics, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)

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

Lyrics, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)

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

PENN Address (2004)

“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.”

"Where the streets have no name"
Lyrics, The Joshua Tree (1987)

“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."”

"If God Will Send His Angels"
Lyrics, Pop (1997)

“All is quiet on New Year's Day”

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

“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.”

"New Year's Day"
Lyrics, War (1983)

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

"All Because of You"
Lyrics, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)

“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.”

"North and South of the River"
Lyrics, Staring at the Sun (1997 EP)

“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.”

National Prayer Breakfast (2006)

“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?”

PENN Address (2004)

“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.”

National Prayer Breakfast (2006)

“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.”

On his father
Rolling Stone interview (2005)

“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”

CNN Interview, after the 2006 Grammys http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?url=/video/showbiz/2006/02/09/u2.wins.five.grammys.cnn&wm=10 (9 February 2006)

“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”

Cedars Of Lebanon
Lyrics, No Line On The Horizon (2009)

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

Stand Up Comedy
Lyrics, No Line On The Horizon (2009)