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,
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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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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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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Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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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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They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
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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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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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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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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 is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do
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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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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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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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