Music can’t change the world.
BOB GELDOFPlaying live if the thing I love doing best
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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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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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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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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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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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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They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
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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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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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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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Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.
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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 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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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