When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
BOB GELDOFMusic can’t change the world.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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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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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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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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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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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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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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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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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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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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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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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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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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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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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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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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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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So when I got to 50 I just thought, Hold on: I’m thin. I’ve got my hair. I’m well off. I survived, you know
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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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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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Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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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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