„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…
“God is love and love is evolution's best day”
Stand Up Comedy
Lyrics, No Line On The Horizon (2009)
“I Don't believe in Riches but You should see Where I live”
"God Part II"
Lyrics, Rattle And Hum(1988)
"The Fly"
Lyrics, Achtung Baby (1991)
“"We used to say, 'They have everything, but it.' We had nothing, but it".”
CNN Larry King Weekend (2002)
“This shitty world sometimes produces a rose
The scent of it lingers and then it just goes”
Cedars Of Lebanon
Lyrics, No Line On The Horizon (2009)
"Stay (Faraway,So Close)
Lyrics, Zooropa (1993)
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)
“I'll show you a place, high on the desert plain. Where the streets have no name”
"Where the streets have no name"
Lyrics, The Joshua Tree (1987)
"If God Will Send His Angels"
Lyrics, Pop (1997)
"Miracle Drug"
Lyrics, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)
"All Because of You"
Lyrics, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)
“There was a badness that had its way. But love wasn't lost. Love will have its day.”
"North and South of the River"
Lyrics, Staring at the Sun (1997 EP)
National Prayer Breakfast (2006)
PENN Address (2004)
National Prayer Breakfast (2006)
On his father
Rolling Stone interview (2005)
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)
Cedars Of Lebanon
Lyrics, No Line On The Horizon (2009)
Stand Up Comedy
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.”
Lyrics, All That You Can't Leave Behind (2000), Walk On
"One"
Lyrics, Achtung Baby (1991)
“My name is Bono and I am a rock star.”
An allusion to Apple Computer's "switch" commercials, which ended with such statements.
PENN Address (2004)