Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
BOB GELDOFIt’s a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that’s sickening.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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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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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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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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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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But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
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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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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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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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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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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I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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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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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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Physically I’m tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight
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