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 GELDOFThey thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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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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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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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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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 what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do
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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?’
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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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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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I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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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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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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Music can’t change the world.
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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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