Quote

I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition.

— Zack de la Rocha

Sentiment: POSITIVE

←Previous Next→

✓Similar Perspectives

I grew up listening to hits, and if I write something I feel, I think that's pretty mass appeal. I'm not very elitist with music. Love is universal; a great melody is universal; it goes around the world; it's not just American. A great song can touch the world.

— Diane Warren

It's a great honor when somebody takes your song and does something different with it. That's what music is all about: to constantly change what somebody else has done.

— Laurent Brancowitz

I think that's the whole point of music - to inspire people.

— Reeve Carney

I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have.

— Itzhak Perlman

I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.

— Yo-Yo Ma

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.

— David Bowie

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

— Che Guevara

I connect emotionally to these songs. I mean what I say when I say it, and that allows your audience to connect. That's the number-one reason why any music is successful, because you make people feel something.

— Michael Buble

Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

— Marsha Norman

✗Opposing Perspectives

With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me.

— J. Tillman