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
BOB GELDOFMusic can’t change the world.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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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 I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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Music can’t change the world.
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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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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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I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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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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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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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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But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
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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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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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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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I don’t think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that’s what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
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