Michael Franti Quotes

If you hear a good song, it makes you hopeful like, 'That is out there.'

Life seems terrible and disappointing, so you need to find something you need to make you stick around. Music that makes me happiest is the saddest music, with the most emotional feel.

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

My main thing is I just want to share as much hope and happiness as possible for music. If I can share as many moments and help people believe in themselves... if I can do that, then I'll feel like my job is done.

It's part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There's so much hurt in this world and... music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.

Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.

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.

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

Without a song, each day would be a century.

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

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

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it's not reality, but who cares? There's too much reality these days.

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

I'm continually inspired by nature, and the rainbow is one of nature's greatest optical phenomenons. The sighting of a rainbow never fails to bring a smile to people's faces. They signify optimism and positivity: with them comes the sunshine after the rain.

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

As a science fiction and fantasy writer, I used to love writing bleak, grimdark futures full of bleak, grimdark people. But I've found that as the world around me darkens, all I really want to do is grasp for more light.

I just want to be a light of hope for anyone who might be in the dark.

People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.

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've always been trying to write songs that hit you in the stomach but ones that make people feel like things will be just fine.

People are hungry for messages of hope and life.

Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you.