Quotes by Bob Geldof

About Bob Geldof:

Robert Frederick Zenon "Bob" Geldof 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".
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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.

Bob Geldof

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.

Bob Geldof

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best.

Bob Geldof

Playing live if the thing I love doing best.

Bob Geldof

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.

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

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

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

Bob Geldof

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.

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

Music can't change the world.

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

The girls are a complete joy and I love their passion. They argue with me like mad and I love that too.

Bob Geldof

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.

Bob Geldof

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

Bob Geldof

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

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

Bob Geldof

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

Bob Geldof

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

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

Bob Geldof

Author Bio

  • NameBob Geldof
  • DescriptionIrish singer-songwriter, author and political activist
  • BornOctober 5, 1954
  • CountryIreland
  • ProfessionSinger-songwriter; Actor; Singer; Author
  • AwardsPeabody Award; Knight Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire; North–South Prize; Steiger Award; The Nichols-Chancellor's Medal