When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
BOB GELDOFIt’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 Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.
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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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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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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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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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