Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
BOB GELDOFMusic can’t change the world.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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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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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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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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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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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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You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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Men who are not given any voice in this because of the secret nature of the courts, what they’re left with is dressing up ridiculously, but at least using humour to try and draw attention to their kids
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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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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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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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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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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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It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
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