Seth Godin Quotes

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.

Music moves society more than most people realize. In my opinion, it's a soft manipulator of influence and change.

I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

I think you have a limited amount of impact as an entertainer, performer, or musician.

All I've ever wanted to do is move the needle on popular culture.

People say I'm destroying hip-hop, and I'm like, there's so much hip-hop, and it's so popular, so I don't know why I have the power to destroy it.

All art is political. Yes. Even the stuff that sounds like bubble-gum songs. I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking.

Singers like Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar are very conscious of what's going on around them, and they're waking up lot of young people with that knowledge. They bring their enlightenment to the world; the world that is buying their records.

The artist has tremendous power to change the world.

It was like Elvis came along and whispered some dream in everybody's ear

I really believe that Bob Dylan and others have speeded up the changes. Pacifism has found a voice at last.

I think art can really serve to inspire a movement - and, of course, it has in the past. The Civil Rights movement wouldn't have the same resonance without the songs from everyone from Pete Seeger to Odetta to James Brown.

I'm talking about the '60s really. People go interview these guys and ask them, "Do you still think music can change the world?" I mean, go talk to Graham Nash about that. What's he going to tell you? Ask David Crosby. These guys are still out there. They're playing their hits at Staples Center and those are really valuable songs. I'm talking about a couple of the guys who got knee-deep into really believing music had a great service beyond radio. I believe it did. And I think a lot of those songs are great.

We have the ability to change people's minds and hearts - that's what we want to do with theatre. That's what theatre does... period.

Musicians have been political literally since people were writing songs.

Movies are arguably the most influential, important medium in the world. They have a tremendous cultural impact. Because women are now making movies, then women's ideas, philosophy, point of view will seep into that culture. And that's never happened in history. Ever, ever, ever. We can't even see the impact of that yet.

Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the world.

It just sort of happened. I wrote like what I'd always read and what was in the movies... I'm sure popular music is supposed to be like this.

I don't know what you wanna describe as Rock 'n' Roll, but I certainly thought that 60s stuff, Bob Dylan and the Beatles, changed the world a little bit. But the effect seems to have retreated. I think it's harder than we think to change the world. These things go in cycles. It doesn't seem to have done an awful lot of good, does it? You know, all the talk of racial harmony and equality in the world... we haven't got a long way since the 60s.

You can positively affect and change a social circumstance with art, and it’s vital that a change happens now.

The belief in the '70s was that music was changing the world. I never believed that it had that great an effect. The effect Madonna had on fashion and sort of mores of young girls was a bigger deal than anything Dylan may have said, even.

I don't think films in and of themselves create radical change, but I think a film can contribute to people's understanding and deepen their understanding and help contribute to a shift.

Where the women go, the culture goes.