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”

“I wish you were here
I wish you were here
To see what I could see
To hear
And I wish you were here”

“I will try to keep my homily brief. But be warned — I'm Irish.”

“I really remember John Lennon's Imagine. I guess I'm twelve; that's one of my first albums. That really set fire to me. It was like he was whispering in your ear — his ideas of what's possible. Different ways of seeing the world.”

“Walk on, walk on
What you've got they can't deny it
Can't sell it, can't buy it
Walk on, walk on
Stay safe tonight.”

“Well, the heart that hurts is a heart that beats.”

“The songs are in your eyes.
I see them when you smile.”

“Sometimes you can't make it.
The best you can do is to fake it.
Sometimes you can't make it on your own.”

“Who in Ireland could have too much respect for organized religion? We've seen it tear our country in two. My mother was a Protestant. My father was a Catholic. And I learned that religion is often the enemy of God, actually.”

“I've never left Ireland, really, you know you come here, come to America, I mean for Irish people America is kind of a promise land" … "It's the milk and honey ya know and we've always had this feeling for this country and the country I think has a feeling for our band”

“Yesterday, here in Philadelphia, at the Liberty Bell, I met a lot of Americans who do have the will. From arch-religious conservatives to young secular radicals, I just felt an incredible overpowering sense that this was possible. We're calling it the ONE campaign, to put an end to AIDS and extreme poverty in Africa. They believe we can do it, so do I.”

“Segregation. There was another one. America sees this now but it took a civil rights movement to betray their age. And 50 years ago the U. S. Supreme Court betrayed the age May 17, 1954, Brown vs. Board of Education came down and put the lie to the idea that separate can ever really be equal. Amen to that.”

“Have you come here for forgiveness? Have you come to raise the dead? Have you come here to play Jesus to the lepers in your head”

“Sing the melody line you hear in your own head. Remember, you don't owe anybody any explanations, you don't owe your parents any explanations, you don't owe your professors any explanations.”

“It's much harder to be relevant than it is to be successful”

“I am saying we are great. I'm not saying I'm great. There's a difference…”

“If you're wondering what I'm doing here, at a prayer breakfast, well, so am I. I'm certainly not here as a man of the cloth, unless that cloth is leather. It's certainly not because I'm a rock star. Which leaves one possible explanation: I'm here because I've got a messianic complex.
Yes, it's true. And for anyone who knows me, it's hardly a revelation.”

“There is no failure here sweetheart, just when you quit.”

“It's a fact. So why aren't we pumping our fists in the air and cheering about it? Well probably because when we admit we can do something about it, we've got to do something about it. For the first time in history we have the know how, we have the cash, we have the lifesaving drugs, but do we have the will?”

“Rock n roll stops the traffic”

“Vision over visibility”

“We had a street gang that was very vivid — very surreal. We were fans of Monty Python.”