Varun Grover Quotes

I think both comedy and dissent are liberating, for the listener as well!

Freedom is a part of protest as well.

Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.

Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.

Art and resistance are great together. That's what art's made for. Look at Vincent van Gogh: He didn't cut off his ear because he was selling well.

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

Whenever somebody tells me they want me to stop singing, I'm gone.

To me, protesting and playing music go hand in hand.

I feel like we have to fight for art.

...the right to free expression is something one seizes, not something one is given.... if it does exist, it exists to be used against the established order.... There is absolute opposition between the artist and the state.

Art is our weapon. Culture is a form of resistance.

The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.

Being an activist and an artist - those two things should go together. You should allow the artistic sensibility to control some of your activism, but never should it be allowed to paralyze you.

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.

When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life.