Music can’t change the world.
BOB GELDOFActually, 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.
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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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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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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Tell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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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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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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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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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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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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It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
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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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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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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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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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