Vyautas Landsbergis Quotes

I am not political. It is not my job. But I would be happy if politicians could read my work and draw some conclusions from it.

Everything I do is political.

I think if you're going to make political art, you have to engage at some level. You can't just write about politics, you have to try and be politics as well.

I'm a sort of political person, and I feel that there's a kind of ineradicably political dimension to theater, to all theater, whether it's overtly political or not.

Music can't 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.

Politics is an instrument that can transform society.

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 can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world, and my writing doesn't exist on a separate level. And if people know who I am and read my books, well, good; that way, if I have something more to say, then everyone benefits.

I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.

Ironically enough, why I got into politics is because I came to the conclusion that if you wanted to save the world, which in my mind was through the environment, those elected officials seemed to be the ones who made a lot of the important decisions, if not the most important decisions.

The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our politics, and it is we who with our feet and our vote and our labors and our vigilance are supposed to shape our country.

Everything I do has an underlying political question.

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.

My father [Pandit Nehru] was a statesman. I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.

I think everybody who has a brain should get involved in politics. Working within. Not criticizing it from the outside. Become an active participant, no matter how feeble you think the effort is.

People always said you shouldn't get in politics and talk about politics. But I believe the politics are all around us.

I am not a politician nor an activist but in my small way try and bring change with the kind of films I do.

I have struggled in life and this has made me sensitive towards the needs of others. Politics gives you the opportunity to really do something.

I consider myself an activist who governs.

Music has always pushed ahead social movements and can do much more than just dumb down a populace.

I have always been politically active and vaguely dissatisfied with the state of news, but I wasn't sure why.

The question for me is not are we political, but how are we political? We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage.

Where cultural representations do not reach out beyond themselves, there is the danger that they will function as the surrogates for activism, that they will constitute both the beginning and the end of political practice.

The rôle of the artist is that of a soldier of the revolution.