When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.
BOB GELDOFTell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
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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What’s the point in having a company of secretaries?
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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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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 strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
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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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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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Playing live if the thing I love doing best
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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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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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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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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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I’d always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think,
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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 Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.
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