Bono

The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape.

The less you know, the more you believe.

Let your life be your music and let your music be your life.

There’s so many ways you can hit one note.

I’m a musician at heart, I know I’m not really a singer. I couldn’t compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.

Especially, I want my work-and the trios if possible-to sing.

In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.

If a jazz player is really playing, the classical player will have to respect him.

I’d take my guitar and play on the streets. A gospel song would get me a pat on the head. But a blues would get me a dime. So you see why I stuck with the blues.

I sought some kind of freedom in music, in the promise of transcendence and the idea that the purity and the innocence of a mythical god could somehow deliver me from darkness.

I’m now a legend, whether I want to be or not.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

I’m… a rather simple person with a limited talent and perhaps a limited perspective.

My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room.

Invest yourself in everything you do. There’s fun in being serious.

The first time I went to Paris, it just felt like I was home. I didn’t question it.

An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.