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Protest is patriotic. Since the beginning of musical time, American singers and songwriters have used their talent and bully pulpits to show us America's strengths and shortcomings.

— Shawn Amos

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The nice thing about a protest song is that it takes the complaint, the fussing, the finger-pointing, and gives it an added component of sociable harmony.

— Nicholson Baker

I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.

— Nina Simone

Other than Green Day, we haven't had a lot of protest music over the past few decades.

— Adam McKay

It wasn't my natural inclination to get into writing protest songs.

— David Sylvian

Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.

— Ice Cube

Hip hop is the strongest form of protest there is, and it doesn't always have to be a violent protest. It can be romantic, also. When you listen to Kanye West's 'Street Lights' for example, there's romance, there's pain - you feel the essence. I get the same thing from Drake and 2 Chainz.

— Giuseppe Zanotti

You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.

— Paul Kantner

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

— Bruce Springsteen

I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.

— Stephen Malkmus

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— Chico Hamilton