„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…
Acceptance speech at the MTV Europe Music Awards, referring to French nuclear testing in Pacific (1995)
“I wish you were here
I wish you were here
To see what I could see
To hear
And I wish you were here”
"Stranger in a Strange Land"
Lyrics, October (1981)
Lyrics, All That You Can't Leave Behind (2000), Walk On
“Well, the heart that hurts is a heart that beats.”
"One Step Closer"
Lyrics, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)
“The songs are in your eyes.
I see them when you smile.”
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)
CNN Larry King Weekend (2002)
PENN Address (2004)
PENN Address (2004)
“I am saying we are great. I'm not saying I'm great. There's a difference…”
CNN Larry King Weekend (2002)
National Prayer Breakfast (2006)
“There is no failure here sweetheart, just when you quit.”
Lyrics, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)
PENN Address (2004)
“Rock n roll stops the traffic”
Message spray-painted onto the Vaillancourt fountain during a free concert in San Francisco (11 November 1987)
Moment of Surrender
Lyrics, No Line On The Horizon (2009)
“We had a street gang that was very vivid — very surreal. We were fans of Monty Python.”
We'd put on performances in the city center of Dublin. I'd get on the bus with a stepladder and an electric drill. Mad shit. Humor became our weapon. Just stand there, quiet — with the drill in my hand. Stupid teenage shit.
Rolling Stone interview (2005)