Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do
BOB GELDOFMusic is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do
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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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But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
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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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You can’t trust politicians. It doesn’t matter who makes a political speech. It’s all lies – and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.
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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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Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
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Music can’t change the world.
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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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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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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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When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
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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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Rock and Roll is instant coffee.
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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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