Bob Geldof Quotes

• Rock ’n’ roll is instant coffee.

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• Irish Americans are about as Irish as Black Americans are African.

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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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• 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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• 90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What’s going on? What’s the great discontent at the heart of it?

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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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• And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don’t have the privilege of bringing them up?

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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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• 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 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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• 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, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.

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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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• Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone.

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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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• 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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• I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.

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• If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older.

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• Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.

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• Music can’t change the world.

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Bob Geldof (36)

Birth:	5th October, 1951
Nationality:	Irish
Profession:	Activist, Actor, Author, Lyricist, Musician, Philanthropist, Singer

About

Bob Geldof was born and brought up in Dún Laoghaire, Ireland. He is an Irish singer-songwriter, author, occasional actor and political activist. He rose to prominence as the lead singer of the Irish rock band The Boomtown Rats in the late 1970s and early 1980s alongside the punk rock movement. The band had hits with his compositions "Rat Trap" and "I Don't Like Mondays". He co-wrote "Do They Know It's Christmas?", one of the best-selling singles of all time, and starred in Pink Floyd's 1982 film Pink Floyd – The Wall as "Pink". Geldof was appointed an honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II, and is a recipient of the Man of Peace title which recognises individuals who have made "an outstanding contribution to international social justice and peace", among numerous other awards and nominations.

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