Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me
BOB GELDOFMusic is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do
More Bob Geldof Quotes
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Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn’t there.
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Well, I’m Bob and I’m an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.
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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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I do think I feel it but you don’t think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don’t think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It’s been a long fifty years.
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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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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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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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I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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