Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.
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 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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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 cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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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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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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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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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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
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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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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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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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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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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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