When Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.
BOB GELDOFMusic is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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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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So when I got to 50 I just thought, Hold on: I’m thin. I’ve got my hair. I’m well off. I survived, you know
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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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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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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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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Again, in an imaginary other universe, maybe we’d have done it. That’s the terrible truth that lies at the heart of each of us; that imponderable, ‘were I not Jewish, in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany, would I have gone down on the other side?’
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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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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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It’s really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you’re going to get it to these people.
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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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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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