Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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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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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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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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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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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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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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You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
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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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it.
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So when I got to 50 I just thought, Hold on: I’m thin. I’ve got my hair. I’m well off. I survived, you know
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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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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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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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