Michael Franti Quotes

The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Music will bring you through... It brought me through.

There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful.

I even got letters form kids in hospitals saying the music is what keeps them going, and that really touched my heart.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

In the midst of hardship, it was the music that restored my soul.

Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.

Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation.

Every single day, I get letters - very moving, overwhelming letters - testifying how much my books have meant to people in times of crisis in their lives, when they were very ill, say. If I ever doubted that writing could play an important part in people's lives, I don't doubt that now.

But back then the thing that saved me was the music, and it's certainly the music that saves me now. The music, my family and my friends and everybody around me.

And woven into the fabric of this harsh existence was music.

To think that my heart and my words and my music saved somebody's life, it takes a while to just sink in with me. But it proves to me that music is powerful.

A lot of songs are empowering because everybody who has been through a hard time in a relationship or in their lives can relate to it.

I think that's what it is with rock music. It helps you hang tough, I guess.

When I felt upset and lost, music always had the answer.

I think all the best songs do that: they offer some sort of hope and light in the darkness.

All I can do with my music is try and be a light for people who are in a dark time.

In the worst of times, music is a promise that times are meant to be better.

I fell in love with music because it gave me an escape, it gave me strength, and it gave me confidence.

I get tons of messages every day telling me, 'Your music has provided me with answers.'

People come up to me and tell me how they were in a dark place and our music helped them out. It's mind-blowing. It's not just 'Rock Lobster' or 'Love Shack' - there's much more there.

I have learned that music helps a lot of people survive, and they want songs that can give them something - I guess you could call it hope.

I'm singing these songs to inspire you, to keep you going, to lift you up and give you a reason to get up in the morning.

I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery.