Ed Sheeran Quotes

I just look at music as a retreat from organizing. It's like a tug-of-war with me. Music can be effective, but it's not any good if there isn't a grass-roots movement going on to support it.

I think we have responsibilities to be active in the things we believe in, regardless of what our job is. At least in my lifetime, there has been a tremendous combining of activism and music, that came up in the era of Pete Seeger and the Weavers and Joan Baez and Bob Dylan and Peter Paul & Mary.

I believe in music because it has the power of change.

Sometimes music isn't the way to talk politics, you know?

Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.

The music industry has been hijacked by corporate interests, but the way music affects people and resonates with them hasn't changed.

I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

I don't just play the trumpet because it's something that resonates with me: I play the trumpet because I realize it's a means to help free a lot of people that ain't free.

'Hatful of Hollow' and 'The Smiths' were lent to me, and they made me want to create music that might make another person feel like they made me feel - to have an effect on someone.

Music is a thing that changes people's lives. It has the capacity to make young people's lives better.

I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.

I want to touch people's lives with my music and my lyrics.

I try to use my music to move these people to act.

Then came the choreography... the impact of music and choreography tends to really emphasize an overall feeling of what you really want out of the program.

I used protest music as a vehicle.

The power and reach of music should never be underestimated.

In every generation, politicians let us down, but music can lift us above the fighting and the mistakes. It does not offer answers to specific political questions. Instead, it looks beyond them.

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

Music is the great equalizer.

The power of music is undeniable.

One song isn't going to ever change things, but I suppose it's the accumulation of music generally [that is]. If you can imagine a world that has no music in it, it would be a very different world, so music does change the world by virtue of all the music in it. Cumulative music of every kind, from banging a drum to playing a flute or recording symphonies, or singing 'War, what is it good for?' All those things change the whole way we live.

Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.

My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

I love music. I do play. It's like mathematics, and it's also emotional. It's nice to play, for no other reason than just to play.