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.
BOB GELDOFMusic is still above all else the thing that does it for me
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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It’s a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that’s sickening.
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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
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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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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