Big Freedia Quotes

Music is a great vehicle for communications, and I have a certain platform. I have an opportunity and I have to take it.

After the Winter Olympics in 2006, I realized I had a platform to speak about causes that were important to me - and people would listen.

I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.

Not all artists have a responsibility to be socially or politically aware, but they do have a responsibility to make great art. They have to find some truth and put that in their music.

Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.

I originally wanted to embrace the imagery and forthrightness of rap music. There are some interesting, dynamic voices in rap. But I find most of it irresponsible in its overt violence and commercialization of anger. As artists, we believe we can will action through language. If that's the case, we have to take responsibility for what we say.

I am fortunate enough with my career that I can speak out to the masses and hopefully be a part of initiating change.

Being a singer is a way for me to get to a platform to do more.

Music is always a commentary on society.

I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song.

I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.

For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.

I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.

A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'

If you want people to know what your message is, just sing it.

We don't have to stand on a soap-box and preach because hopefully we're channelling it through the new record.

If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing.

I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.

I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social and political commentary through their music.

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.

If the opportunity offers, the Cynic [philosopher] must speak up on the public platform …. You must be able to explain to individuals as well as to a crowd of people the battle they're embroiled in

I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

I'm blessed to have a platform that allows me to speak to many at once. I recognize that I can make consciousness a tangible thing for young people.

If my work is on the stage, you can be rested assured I'm going to make use of it as a platform for activism as much as possible.

I recognize that I'm in a band, and part of being in a band is doing interviews, and I do have a platform so I want to use that platform to talk about things that are real.