Music can’t change the world.
BOB GELDOFMusic can’t change the world.
BOB GELDOFAnd whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.
BOB GELDOFBut I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
BOB GELDOFI’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,
BOB GELDOFWell, I’m Bob and I’m an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.
BOB GELDOFYou cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
BOB GELDOFYou’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.
BOB GELDOFTell me why…… I don’t like Mondays.
BOB GELDOFBlair has called Africa ‘a scar on our conscience’. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world’s soul.
BOB GELDOFPlaying live if the thing I love doing best
BOB GELDOFI 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.
BOB GELDOFWe’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.
BOB GELDOFIt strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
BOB GELDOFRock and Roll is instant coffee.
BOB GELDOFHuman progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it.
BOB GELDOFAgain, 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?’
BOB GELDOF