Suzanne Vega Quotes

I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.

I'm not a guy who takes films for strong political messages.

I could just go to the horse races and take lovely holidays, but I have some strong views, and I want to make a difference.

A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word.

I don't think there is a single social issue I haven't spoken on.

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

Whatever I do, it will be fighting for social justice.

Any form of art is political if you make it that way.

I'm a walking political statement.

Though I do believe that when you live in political times it is inevitable that your art be political, I also think we need to start making activists celebrities rather than trying to make celebrities to be activists.

Everything I do is political.

There have been many socially conscious concept albums. I wanted to make a 'social consciousness' concept album disguised as a country record.

We've always been a band who wants to put our money where our mouths are. We have political songs, but we don't like to hit people over the heads with stuff. So it's better to do benefits and causes and talk about it later rather than always trying to put it in the song.

It's a coincidence that most of the films I have done are to do with social causes.

Even though there's an entertainment value to the film, I think it's very important because you can't really separate the impact of that political message from it. It's rare that you get films like that I think; that really have an important message and are also entertaining.

Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political.

The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work.

I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.

I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.

I never start anything with a really overt, political, or even exactly artistic mission statement.

My cartoons haven't been about the politics of the day or about the personalities; I'm more interested in campaigning about the issues.

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.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the world we get.

I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.

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