Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.
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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.
I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.
While legislation obviously is political, we now have allowed regulation to become politicized, which we believe will likely lead to some bad outcomes.
People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.
Other than Green Day, we haven't had a lot of protest music over the past few decades.
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.
The power of protest depends not only on how many turn out, but also on what legislative, judicial, and civil society institutions exist to enact the will of those marching in the streets.
My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.
I don't think music should be played anywhere near politics. The two don't go together.
I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music.