Music can’t change the world.
BOB GELDOFEverything 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.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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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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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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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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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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You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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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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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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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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Physically I’m tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight
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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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I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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