Justin Vernon Quotes

People and poets are marching together. Art is henceforth on a popular footing in the arena with the masses.

There were moments where people took the to streets and small rebellions, but ultimately it's a change in consciousness - so how do you capture that and bring the piece to light?

I think it's very important for us to start to build a culture of resistance, because what we're doing isn't working, clearly.

I titled my book "Revolution." And that is exactly what it is. France is experiencing a time of transformation - in education, on the labor market and in the pensions system. We're talking about a cultural revolution.

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. You have to have the idea of change or at least have a hope before you can proceed. And that stage goes very quickly because a contagion of consciousness is within your control. But when you get to the stage of institutional change, it becomes a much slower process.

If my goal is to change Colombia, which it is because I really think Columbia has to change in many, many ways - I think it has to be a very profound, nearly spiritual maturing process in the Colombian society because I think you have to first be aware of what's happening and it's not easy because many people don't want to see what's happening.

I believe that we are at the point now, in the United States, where a movement is beginning to emerge.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

Things need shaking up politically, culturally.

Something is stirring in the hearts and minds of the people.

You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action.

This is only a preliminary step toward a similar revolution everywhere.

Especially in the sphere of social activism, I think we tend to unwittingly conceptualize progress or revolution as black and white and having a clear beginning and end.

I do see myself as aiming to foment some kind of revolution.

Things have not changed as much as we would like to think they have. Or maybe we're just in another one of the divided moments in the country. The late '60s certainly was one of them, the Civil War being another, but I'm hard-pressed to think of too many.

I think we're at a time where people just want to join together and cause change. People don't want to live like this any more.

I think people look at revolution too much in terms of power. I think revolution has to be seen more anthropologically, in terms of transitions from one mode of life to another.

They ask me if I'm going to quit. I thought we were just getting started. We have a revolution to fight, a country to change.

The world around us is in a sea change, and I think the glory of art is that it cannot only survive change, it can lead it

Revolution means turning the wheel.

I get up every morning and think, today I'm going to make a difference. Today I'm going to end capitalism. Today I'm going to make a revolution. I go to bed every night disappointed but I'm back to work tomorrow, and that's the only way you can do it.

The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.

All times are changing times, but ours is one of massive, rapid moral and mental transformation. Archetypes turn into millstones, large simplicities get complicated, chaos becomes elegant, and what everybody knows is true turns out to be what some people used to think.

People need to dance. I'd say dance at least twice a day. That's how to get your energy up and how you keep you revolutionary spirit going. It's Emma Goldman who said, "Any revolution where I can't dance is not my revolution." I think that's the revolution we want.