Politics In Music Quotes

It is a common mistake these days to politicize anything and everything, including music.

If I wasn't rapping about politics, then I might have been just another person trying to sell albums, and I might have sounded like everyone else out there.

I have my views and obviously my music has connotations that lean toward what I believe, but I've learned through other artists' mistakes that I'm never going to use my career as a platform for politics, especially at shows. People come to hear music. It's my job to entertain them, and it's my escape too.

The craziest thing is that the song ["My President"] is real but you can still hear it in the club.

Wow, a left-wing leader getting a good reception at a rock festival. What kind of crazy world is it we live in that that kind of thing happens?

Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political "Copperhead Road" is isn't listening very well.

People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'

We've never been a political band.

As soon as you start mixing up politics and some sort of ethical code in music, you've got it all wrong.