Chris Lowe Quotes

Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.

When Phil and I started out, everyone hated rock n' roll. The record companies didn't like it at all - felt it was an unnecessary evil. And the press: interviewers were always older than us, and they let you know they didn't like your music, they were just doing the interview because it was their job.

What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.

In country music, one of the ways we may have gone wrong in the past is trying to be politically correct all the time.

I am convinced that music, like philanthropy, bridges hope.

If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.

People called rock & roll 'African music.' They called it 'voodoo music.' They said that it would drive the kids insane. They said that it was just a flash in the pan - the same thing that they always used to say about hip-hop.

Music in Iran is considered a safety valve for the state …. We don’t have music in Iran.

I have a working-class approach to music.

Don’t listen to music that is degrading.

We must prevent music to be broadcasted by the public information resources. In shops, hotels, vehicles and rickshaws cassettes and music are prohibited. This matter should be monitored within five days. If any music cassette found in a shop, the shopkeeper should be imprisoned and the shop locked.

There's not a day that goes by that I don't get an email from someone who is angry with me and tells me they're not going to let their kid listen to Imagine Dragons anymore.

That was the coolest thing about 'Baby Got Back.' The establishment didn't embrace the song, which is what kept me from being the next pop guy to fizzle out and get laughed at, get dissed on TV. That helped save me. The fact that MTV banned the record made the record, in a weird way.

Anybody that pays attention to hate really is wasting their time. I don't subscribe. I don't buy in.

Music is like a medicine.

I feel like boys listen to my music. They just don't like to admit it, but I go hard. But yeah, I feel like I go really hard, so why not listen to me? Anybody could relate to my music, honestly.

It kind of goes without saying. But I will: If you are a Nazi, you aren't a fine person. You're bad.

At first, because this genre of music was so urban, sometimes we would sing songs that were so aggressive. And my parents didn't like it. They would break my cassettes and say, 'That music is garbage.'

My view on music and the way that it's portrayed is that it's a religion.

Don't you think it's kind-of cool to have a band that offends MTV, that puts out a video that real fans have to dig around for, or stay up late to see?

I don't mind talking about the Dixie Chicks, because I feel like it's still alive and kicking.

The Stop The War Coalition is a sort of home to Jew-haters because its hate music about Israel is so catchy.

His belief in the power of music to convey ideas - not just entertain - has filtered down to musicians in every field, from alt-rock to hip-hop, from Bruce Springsteen and U2 to Arcade Fire and Kanye West. Popular music is different because of Johnny Cash.

Even if the KKK isn't the outsized presence it once was in this country, many of its principles and ideas are alive and well.

I don't even want my music on mainstream radio. They don't deserve it. They destroy careers.