They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
BOB GELDOFEverything 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.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do
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It’s like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it’s not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on
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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.
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Well, I’m Bob and I’m an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.
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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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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it’s empirically so.
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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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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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You can’t trust politicians. It doesn’t matter who makes a political speech. It’s all lies – and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.
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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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But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
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Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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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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