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When people say, 'Why don't you face the music?' I say, 'You have to understand the music is not an open court and a fair trial.'

— Edward Snowden

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✓Similar Perspectives

I'm not a jukebox; I don't play exactly what the crowd wants to hear - that doesn't make sense. But, I do look at people requests. At the end of the day, they are the ticket payers and they are the ones that come to the show. If I played music that purely entertains me, I'd play very weird music.

— Armin van Buuren

I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music.

— Chico Hamilton

For a while, people couldn't understand why I'd find them so fascinating, but I'd rather go to a trial than to a Broadway play. Now that we have Court TV, they see what I mean.

— Ann Rule

Every one of us has a response of some kind to music, so I don't think it's fair to ever judge what is proper and what's not.

— Steven Price

It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.

— Randy Newman

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

— Walter Lippmann

I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music.

— Carrie Brownstein

One doesn't want to feel too contented; you have to feel challenged by the music.

— Alex Lifeson

I set out to create a means whereby music could be a way of vindicating the rights of the masses.

— Gustavo Dudamel

✗Opposing Perspectives

Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.

— Billy Corgan