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Bob Geldof

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

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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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"A song is anything that can walk by itself."

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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

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"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

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"Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music."

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"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."

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"I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano."

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"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."

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"I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too."

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"How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me."

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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

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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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"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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"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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"If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older."
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"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."
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"Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans."
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"Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do."
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