Music as Resistance Quotes

The world is filled with people who are no longer needed -- and who try to make slaves of all of us -- and they have their music and we have ours.

My experience is that white kids love hip-hop, and brown and black kids love rock music. That shows that brown kids - they carry emotion, they carry pain, they carry oppression and strife.

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

I think it's always been especially hard for black people to let go of musicians who do heinous things because music is such an integral part of our existence.

I think that brown people are attracted to rock music because it speaks on the spectrum of pain that brown people are predisposed to.

Black Americans should be given credit for finding probably the perfect weapon; the weapon of the song. And that song continues. Most holocausts don't, so they have this bitterness left over. The phenomenon of the world, as far as Black Americans are considered, is that we are not a bitter people.

I don't care much about politics. That kind of witchcraft I stay away from because people end up dead. I'd rather die for music.

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

'Jelly,' more than any black musical before it, celebrated the majesty, the purity, the joy of so many artists who are unable to fully embody these same qualities in their own lives.

When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.