When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.
BOB GELDOFBut I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
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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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They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
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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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Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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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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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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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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Music can’t change the world.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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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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Well, I’m Bob and I’m an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.
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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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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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I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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