Bob Geldof quotes
Born
5 October 1951 DĂșn Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland.
Occupation
Singer-songwriter, author.
Bob Geldof is an Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist and occasional actor. 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.
But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I’ve several friends just haven’t made it by taking Prozac.
– Bob Geldof
I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.
– Bob Geldof
Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do.
– Bob Geldof
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?
– Bob Geldof
Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.
– Bob Geldof
If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older.
– Bob Geldof
Physically I’m tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight.
– Bob Geldof
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.
– Bob Geldof
Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.
– Bob Geldof
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.
– Bob Geldof
Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best.
– Bob Geldof
Music can’t change the world.
– Bob Geldof
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.
– Bob Geldof
I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
– Bob Geldof
There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It’s absolute bollocks.
– Bob Geldof
The girls are a complete joy and I love their passion. They argue with me like mad and I love that too.
– Bob Geldof
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.
– Bob Geldof
Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone.
– Bob Geldof
When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.
– Bob Geldof
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.
– Bob Geldof
And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don’t have the privilege of bringing them up?
– Bob Geldof
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.
– Bob Geldof
Playing live if the thing I love doing best.
– Bob Geldof