Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
BOB GELDOFFind inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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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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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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It’s really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you’re going to get it to these people.
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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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It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
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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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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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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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Music can’t change the world.
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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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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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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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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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