One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.
I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two.
Music in Iran is considered a safety valve for the state …. We don’t have music in Iran.
In the Sixties, the hippies said "Make love, not war," and that was naive. But it might be less naive to say "Make music, not war," in the sense that the people who create musical instruments are the same people who make up new weapons.
Such times of crisis have inevitably brought 'music of conscience' to the fore and I expect we will be hearing more and more of it in the immediate future. When people feel empowered to come together and raise their voices, also will mean raising their voices in song as well.
Entertainment is about telling everybody that everything is alright but music is on the side of the upsetters and that's where I'm at.
I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.
Eminem knows that Republicans buy songs - his songs - too. His message to them is to stop buying.
You're living in a fantasy to think that music can actually change something.
Politics and music should only mix to a point. Me, I think my job as a musician is to make people try to forget about all that.
I think you still need to use music as a way to say something that's important, and I'm always gonna do that. Always.
My father's music gives hope to people and also inspires them to break the bonds of injustice and to be positive in life. I've seen that everywhere I go, especially in poor countries and poor neighborhoods.
Musicians wake up and create a more loving community by creating heavier music.
I loved the Cure and Bauhaus and the Smiths. The people in my town weren't privy to that kind of music and I got abused. I discovered the microphone to get out some of that angst.
I sing sometimes for the war that I fight, 'Cause every tool is a weapon if you hold it right.
