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| Quotes by Bono |
| ACHTUNG BABY ERA QUOTES: -We've got the media bonfire going. The fireworks are lighting up our sky and we're just exploding the clichés whilst warming our hands on them. JOSHUA TREE ERA QUOTES: -I really love that phrase "A Conpiracy of Hope", and I really hope it could be applied to U2 and its organisation. Its whatever you do if you can just do it with a bit of dignity. -U2 is the common thread to everything we've done. There's still the same commitment to each other; to four people. Four guys in the band. -We decided on instinct almost, that it was the right image for the record, but the intellectual reasons I haven't quite sorted out in my own mind. It has a spiritual aspect which this record has, and also a great deal of mystery which I like. Its appropriate on many levels. -Anton Corbijn, our photographer, really is a very funny man, but his photographs are very serious, which is, in a way, quite like us, because people think that we're very serious because we take our music very seriously. BONO'S THOUGHTS ON AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL (February 1987): The first time I became aware of Amnesty International as an organisation, was seeing "The Secret Policeman's Ball" on the television. Like everybody else I pick up on things from the papers and the television, but it just goes in one ear and out of the other. With "The Secret Policeman's Ball" I was interested in them using the medium of comedy juxtaposed with music, with the members of the Monty Python team, Sting, Rowan Atkinson. The sketches were very funny, and it built a credibility with me through that and through the following film. On our last tour, we had toyed with with the idea of doing a concert in every capital city for Amnesty International. In the end we just did Radio City Music Hall in New York, which left us wanting to do more in the future. Then came the Conspiracy of Hope Tour. Jack Healy (head of Amnesty International) came to Dublin to see the group and Paul (McGuinness) and we agreed to give them two weeks but in effect it took us much longer than that. The story doesn't end there... |
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