Well, I’m Bob and I’m an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.
BOB GELDOFMusic can’t change the world.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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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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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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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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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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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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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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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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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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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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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 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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