Bob Geldof Quotes (66 Quotes)

It is filthy money made on the back of the poorest people on the planet. Stick it where it belongs on people selling Live8 tickets on eBay

It appears from the Live 8 experience they can do something about it, because they obviously stopped Live 8 tickets being sold. As JK Rowling's representatives, we would very much appreciate it if they took steps to prevent the activities she has referred to.

This, as we have always said, is only a beginning. But, what a beginning. The deal should be implemented without delay.

Canada's weird, ... Canada invented 0.7. They really invented this great notion. Canada is the sole country of the G8 enjoying a surplus.

Those songs are about getting out; they're not about getting out of family. It wasn't about how family life was curtailing because I didn't know family life.

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

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.

But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I've several friends just haven't made it by taking Prozac.

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

When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.

Poor old Paul. He's getting it in the neck from Bono while he's touring up in Canada and he's getting it in the teeth from me,

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.

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

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

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.

If I can make things a little hotter for the government, if the Tories can push harder on the government and if there is more of a debate on this then good.

There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks.

This is the first time we have heard this sort of language. This is very, very positive indeed.

Essentially the change came, and correctly and properly so, when women finally achieved their biological and financial independence concomitantly.

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

I can see you're going to be trouble, Claire.

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.

Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.

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.

If we can get the domestic heat to such a temperature, just possibly we can reach down that ladder and say, 'come on dudes, I'll give you a hand up'.

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.

It says debt, trade and aid in exchange for the Africans coming to the party with good governance. If they don't come to the party, we can't help -- we'd love to, but we can't.

Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.

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.

I don't care who I have to get to, to make this agenda work. They must know that I am in no one's pocket, that I am not beholden to anyone.

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.

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.

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?

I had this big fight with Madame X, Mrs. Thatcher, 20 years ago, and now the government understands politically it's not worth it to go up against it.

Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's the way it breaks down in my life.

I just don't think the violence will achieve anything. The debt campaigners have never been violent, and they have achieved a lot.

On late ex-wife Paula Yates and her lover Michael Hutchence They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact they were more like Tom and Jerry.

Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight.

Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do.

We need the Dutch and the Belgians to come along with us at the IMF (International Monetary Fund) and try and push through the great package of change on debt relief,

I think the impetus is still there. This continent cannot be allowed to die nightly in the pornography of poverty that is our news screens.

This is the most important tour in Ireland since the Rats because I've built up a body of songs, since we split, as a solo artist.

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.

Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it's very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were a kid you were in a great band.

This debt deal will benefit tens of millions of the poorest people on the planet,

My depressions aren't so much... depression's too heavy a word. I get very down and y'know, boredom is the key to it as I've said.

I understand this is a process but the process should have been accelerated and added to at the UN.

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

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.

Italy ... is the least generous of the developed world with regard to aid and that is a shame. We ask the political class, left or right, to change that,