
„Музыка может изменить мир, поскольку она способна изменить людей.“
Music can change the world because it can change people.
Бо́но — ирландский рок-музыкант, вокалист рок-группы U2, в которой иногда играет также партии ритм-гитары и губной гармошки. Кроме музыкальной деятельности, Боно известен своей гуманитарной активностью в Африке и своими стараниями способствовать отмене долгов бедных стран третьего мира. Был посвящён в рыцари Королевой Елизаветой Второй в 2007 году.
„Музыка может изменить мир, поскольку она способна изменить людей.“
Music can change the world because it can change people.
„Я жутко хочу играть на гитаре, и играю на ней жутко!“
I want to play the guitar badly, and I do play BADLY.
When I talk about love I'm thinking of unselfish love. Sex can be bought and sold just like anything else. But I think real love is about giving and not expecting anything in return.
„Каждый раз, когда мы делаем альбом, — это как будто наш последний альбом. Или первый.“
Every time we make an album it feels like our last, you know. Or our first.
„Я верующий, но это не значит, что я никогда не сержусь.“
I'm a believer in God, but that doesn't mean I don't get angry.
„Это может быть здорово — быть одним целым, но уважать индивидуальность каждого — еще лучше“
Being one can be great but respecting differences can be greater.
I like to be respected. But when it goes further than that, when people wanna find out the meaning of life just because you can sing in tune, because you can write songs — well, then they got the wrong guy
Beautiful Day
What you don't have you don't need it now, what you don't know you can feel somehow…
"Stay (Faraway,So Close)
Lyrics, Zooropa (1993)
“It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways.”
"Mysterious Ways"
Lyrics, Achtung Baby (1991)
“I could never take a chance of losing love to find romance.”
"A Man and A Woman"
Lyrics, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)
"Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own"
Lyrics, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)
On the forming of the band U2
Rolling Stone interview (2005)
“You heard me in my tune when I just heard confusion.”
Lyrics, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)
"The Fly"
Lyrics, Achtung Baby (1991)
“It's not a hill it's a mountain, as you start out the climb”
I'll Go Crazy if I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
Lyrics, No Line On The Horizon (2009)
PENN Address (2004)
“What you don't have you don't need it now
What you don't know you can feel it somehow”
"Beautiful Day"
Lyrics, All That You Can't Leave Behind (2000)
Foreword to The End of Poverty (2005) by Jeffrey Sachs
"Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own"
Lyrics, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)
PENN Address (2004)
“A man will rise, a man will fall. From the shear face of love like a fly from the wall”
"The Fly"
Lyrics, Achtung Baby (1991)
As quoted on Ronnie Drew (2008), talking about Irish folk band The Dubliners
“We're one but we're not the same
We get to carry each other, carry each other”
"One"
Lyrics, Achtung Baby (1991)
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”
I'll Go Crazy if I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
Lyrics, No Line On The Horizon (2009)
PENN Address (2004)
"Vertigo"
Lyrics, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)
Statements made before a live performance of Sunday Bloody Sunday, a song first recorded on the U2 album War (1983)
Rattle and Hum (1987)
“It's a beautiful day…
Don't let it get away”
"Beautiful Day"
Lyrics, All That You Can't Leave Behind (2000)
CNN Larry King Weekend (2002)