Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.
BOB GELDOFMost people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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Music can’t change the world.
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You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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Everything that’s rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that thing is actually happening and that thousands of millions of people around the world are watching.
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Men who are not given any voice in this because of the secret nature of the courts, what they’re left with is dressing up ridiculously, but at least using humour to try and draw attention to their kids
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Physically I’m tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight
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When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.
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When Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.
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I do think I feel it but you don’t think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don’t think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It’s been a long fifty years.
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But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.
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You’ll think I’m off my trolley when I say this, but the Bush administration is the most radical – in a positive sense – in its approach to Africa since Kennedy.
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And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.
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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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I don’t think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that’s what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
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Blair has called Africa ‘a scar on our conscience’. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world’s soul.
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