Bono Quotes

"Music can change the world because it can change people."

"My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them."

"I always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first."

"U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing."

"I'm a singer, not a politician, and I think you don't want the two to get confused."

"It's much easier to be successful than to be relevant."

"Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom."

"Great ideas and great melodies have a lot in common."

"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."

"U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help."

"Great music is written by people who are either running toward or away from God."

"Look, I'm sick of Bono and I AM Bono."

Michael Stipe Quotes

When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.

And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did, and didn't, in the 1960's.

I wouldn't survive ten minutes on American Idol.

I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed.

Radiohead are so good they scare me.



New York can do that to you. You come here to change the world but you end up changing yourself.

I grew up in an era where the Banana Splits, the Archies and the Monkees  were the music that I listened to. The Beatles were the music that was playing in the background.

We made mistakes, but they were ours, and that kind of pride of ownership, whether it`s the really good stuff or the bad and embarrassing stuff, is a really good feeling.

Lately I`ve been listening to Q-tip almost non-stop. And Bjork, and Thom Yorke from Radiohead, Natalie Merchant, Grant-Lee Phillips and Courtney Love and Bono. A lot of those people are people that I know and have friendships with. And when they do something great it really challenges me to kind of one-up them.

If I'm tired of me, I'm sure the public is as well.

U2 Quotes

Bono: "I want to play the guitar very badly, and I do play the guitar very badly."

The Edge: "Every album is difficult. If it was easy, we'd make one a month."

Larry Mullen Jr.: "If Bono left we could carry on. If I left we'd be screwed."

Bono: "Everybody argues, then we do what I say."

Adam Clayton: "For us there's U2 music, and then there's everything else."

Bono: "The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well."

Larry Mullen Jr.: "We've all made enough money to live for the rest of our lives quite comfortably. that's enough money."

The Edge: "I suppose ultimately I'm interested in music. I'm a musician. I'm not a gunslinger. That's the difference between what I do and what a lot of guitar heroes do."

Bono: "U2 is an original species...there are colors and feelings and emotional terrain that  we occupy that is ours and ours alone."

Adam Clayton: "We have a really healthy respect for each other. It's probably taken a little while to get to that point but quite often we'll be digging in the same hole."

The Edge: "People always ask us if we think our songs can really change anything. And I always say that's not why we wrote the songs. We didn;t write them so they would change the situation."

Bono: "As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both."