Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do
BOB GELDOFWhen I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it.
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They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
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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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Music can’t change the world.
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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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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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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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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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I’d always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think,
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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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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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Physically I’m tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight
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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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