Jon Fishman Quotes

I think nobody wants to hear a sermon. Well, some people do, but maybe not through music or not with me. No one wants to hear me give a speech that way.

We don't have to stand on a soap-box and preach because hopefully we're channelling it through the new record.

People can hold any opinion that they want on any subject that they choose. Just don't proactively lie to people. It's a simple request, really, and one that we don't hear nearly enough.

I come from South America and it's part of our culture to speak out. It's a lot healthier.

I think that's one of the greatest gifts that I have: that I can get someone to open up, and all you have to do is ask a question and not feel like you need a response.

To have art suppressed is very dangerous to society.

Art is freedom. If you defend art, you defend freedom.

You should live hoping you are going to offend people, because then you're doing something.

It's my right to write on what I feel about certain incidents, and it's your choice whether to read it or not.

Even as a child, I was witness to protests against a film or a play or a book. All through my growing years, I found various people or organisations protesting against something.

Since I am an actress and not a social activist, cinema is the best medium for me to state my views.

One thing that N.W.A did, as Larry Flynt did before them, was to expand the boundaries of our reliance upon the good sense of the people to determine what's right and what isn't, what's obscene and what isn't, and what's immoral and what isn't.

Someone like a Bob Marley - he was singing Scripture.

Everybody has their opinion. I respect anything that anybody has to say.

I think arts should be liberal, people should be allowed to express themselves. It happens in most democratic countries in the world, and I don't see why it should be different in India.

Art is where we make a stand. If we don't make it there, freedom of expression is lost for everyone - for artists, for journalists, and for everyday people.

That's what art is about: to create dialogue. Everybody deserves to have their own opinion.

You would be surprised at how many letters I get criticising me for straying outside the strict limitations of horticulture or even for expressing what is clearly an opinion.

Reggae goes in and out. It sounds so good, it feels so good and feels so tropical, but the problem is not everybody is Caribbean. Not everyone is going to sound authentic doing it, and sometimes it comes off cheesy when other people do it.

Art penetrates, no matter how many bans you put out.

Whenever you try to preach something, people will not accept or invite it into their lives. But if it is said in a light way, people understand it better, and it is as true for films as it is for life.

I have learnt to respect others opinion more.

I was a kid who sometimes got in trouble because I couldn't keep my mouth shut, which turned out to be an advantage when I became an opinion columnist.

I'm like anybody else that's in media. I've got my opinions. I share them. I'm not afraid of them.

We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure.