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?’
BOB GELDOFWhen Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there’s joy there’s its opposite, and it’s something you ride if you possibly can.
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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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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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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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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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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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It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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We’re looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition… doesn’t matter if it’s death, aid, trade, AIDS, famine, instability, governance, corruption or war. All of that is poverty.
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Music can’t change the world.
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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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