Bob Geldof Quotes

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

I don't know if any genuine, meaningful change could ever result from a song. It's kind of like throwing peanuts at a gorilla.

I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

I think a lot of people came into rock n' roll to try to change the world. I came into rock n' roll to make music.

Music is the biggest tool of revolution - the best way to reach out to the youth and involve them. If you can't contribute to the world with your art, I don't see the meaning of life.

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.

I view music as entertainment. When I'm on stage, I don't look at that as a platform for sharing ideology. Otherwise I'd be a zealot myself. That's why, when people ask me, 'Do you think you can change the world through your music?' I say, 'I doubt it.'

That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world. Bands are very naive to think that just if their audience thinks that they can change the world, that they can. That was quite a lesson for my career, really.

There's no how-to guide for how to change the world. But it's easy to get hung up by misconceptions about what it takes to make an impact.

I'm trying to change the world.

Can art change the world? Maybe... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?

I have to say that when I first started singing, I didn't think it was a very noble profession. I worked for people like Robert Kennedy and I thought: 'Wow, that's what it's about. That's how you change the world.' And then I watched that disintegrate in front of my eyes, and it was very discouraging.

Using political tools to change social conditions won't work.

I don't think that three minutes of music on a commercial record is going to bring paradise, but I feel like there is power in music and power in our words and power in what we put out into the world.

In all honesty, I don't know what one song can change.

if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

Film is a tool of change.

How can art make a difference in the world?

Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.

I think the obligation of an artist is to make a difference in the world. That is what matters most to me. I think that artists are the leaders of the world because they do not have a connection to the industrial complex, the day-to-day short-term survival that most people are involved with.

Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world, but I know that it starts - I know the power of it - I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.

As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.

I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act - that is its primary role.

Art is not meant to change the world.