“Bonnaroo has kind of become the granddaddy of all American festivals. The thing I love about it most is that it wasn't born out of picking the top ten bands off the Billboard chart and creating a festival around it.” KindBornBandTenCreatingFestivalsThings I LoveBillboardsGranddaddy Author:Michael Franti
“My vision of punk rock was these dudes who were spitting on the audience and moshing. That's why I kind of left that scene. Then I see all these people around my same age or between 17 and 25 that were making music themselves in their own town. They weren't just singing, but creating. I see them putting out this music where there are tons of women involved in the scene and involved in the bands.” PeopleKindAgeLeftVisionAudienceRocksInvolvedSceneBandCreatingSingingTownsPunkPunk Rock Author:Kathleen Hanna
“I've always thought that "punk" wasn't really a genre. My band started in Olympia where K Records was and K Records put out music that didn't sound super loud and aggressive. And yet they were punk because they were creating culture in their own community instead of taking their cue from MTV about what was real music and what was cool. It wasn't about a certain fashion. It was about your ideology, it was about creating a community and doing it on your own and not having to rely on, kinda, "The Man" to brand you and say that you were okay.” MenRealCertainCultureSoundCommunityRecordsFashionHe ManBandCreatingOkayIdeologyBrandsGenreLoudRelyAggressivePunkMtvReal Music Author:Kathleen Hanna
“I love David Bowie and Cher and Diana Ross. I wanted to follow in their footsteps. So I set out to do that in a rock-'n'-roll band in Atlanta, Georgia. That led me to nightclubs and to the sort of Andy Warhol experience of creating a personality.” WantedRocksPersonalityBandCreatingRock N RollFootstepsGeorgiaAtlantaDianaWarholBowieNightclubsAtlanta Georgia Author:RuPaul
“I'm a drummer. I've been playing since I was three. I was in college bands when I was in elementary school: you'd see all these older kids and then this little kid behind the drums creating this big sound.” LittlesBigsKidsSchoolThreeSoundBehindsCollegeBandCreatingLittle KidDrummerElementary School Author:AraabMuzik
“You can't be a band and not play, and playing is so invigorating. It breathes life into you. So does creating something out of nothing.” DoePlayBandCreatingBreatheCreating SomethingInvigorating Author:Taylor Momsen
“When we talk about economic growth, we're not talking about bringing a bunch of companies in that can make a bunch of bucks and hope they spend 'em in our city. We're talking about creating jobs, creating new companies and then we move from there to talk about cooperatives which can become some of those jobs, some of the solidarity economy where we can begin to band together people so they'll understand that a job is not a single individual affair but a collective affair.” PeopleTogetherJobsMovingIndividualGrowthCitiesCompanyTalkingEconomyEconomicBandCreatingAffairBunchEmsCollectivesSolidarityEconomic GrowthBucksNot TalkingCooperativesCreating JobsNew Company Author:Chokwe Lumumba