I don't think music should be played anywhere near politics. The two don't go together.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time.
In America, there's more of the question, should music be political or should it just be for entertainment purposes, whereas around the world that's not even an issue. I think people just assume that music should be everything.
People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'
It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa.
It is a common mistake these days to politicize anything and everything, including music.
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 if you're going to get anything done in the Senate, you have to be on the same sheet of music. If you don't get people on the same sheet of music it comes out pretty horrible.
Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.
I don't find music being less important than, like, politics.
There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.