Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power structures and systemic oppression out there.
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Not all artists have a responsibility to be socially or politically aware, but they do have a responsibility to make great art. They have to find some truth and put that in their music.
We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.
The only duty an artist has is in the quality of the art. There is no moral obligation to denounce. An artist confronted with a tremendous injustice sometimes feels inclined to say something. Denouncing the situation is the artist's choice.
Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves.
If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.
To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.
The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.
Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people.
I'm an artist, I'm not an activist.
I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.
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