Bob Geldof Professions : Singer-songwriterBorn : October 5, 1951 Browse All Authors Quotes From Bob Geldof When Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing. Bob Geldof voiceangelmoving It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus. Bob Geldof environmentalpeopleworld We'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. Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself. Bob Geldof springtryingwar Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best Bob Geldof desperatemankind 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 rocksstarslying Bono as we all know, is in love with the world, he's enamoured by it. I'm enraged by it. He wants to give the world a great big hug, I want to punch its lights out. Bob Geldof huglightgiving There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks Bob Geldof supportmenchildren 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 politicssimplepeople Rock & roll is instant coffee. Bob Geldof instant-coffeerockscoffee Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it. Well, I'm Bob and I'm an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people. Bob Geldof progresstryingpeople Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans. Bob Geldof black It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it's not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on Bob Geldof understandinggoes-onplay Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich. Bob Geldof rock-and-rollrockssimple But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I've several friends just haven't made it by taking Prozac. Bob Geldof drugmadethinking Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone. Bob Geldof divorcenucleargone It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term "activism," which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. . . . We made giving exciting. Bob Geldof talkinggivingmean Playing live if the thing I love doing best Bob Geldof things-i-loveifs Feed the world. Let them know it's Christmas time again. Bob Geldof christmas-timechristmasworld 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. Bob Geldof oppositesdepressionthinking Tell me why...... I don't like Mondays. Bob Geldof monday Similar Authors Bill Anderson singer-songwriter Bill Kaulitz singer-songwriter Bob Whitlock singer-songwriter Bob Weir singer-songwriter Brent Smith singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie singer-songwriterAll Authors