“One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.” PeopleShouldLooksArtPoliticalArtistCertainInterestingMusicSourcePoliticianFrameworkInteresting ThingsArt And MusicShaping The Future Author:Thom Yorke
“I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.” PeopleIfsThinkingPoliticalLanguageDealsMusicMediaAccessMainstreamSpitMainstream Media Author:Thom Yorke
“I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently to everyone else.” FeelsPoliticalMusicStatements Author:M.I.A.
“The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.” MenMindIdeasRealShowsAmericaPoliticalUsedPoliticsMusicPrinciplesPracticePoliticianFellowsAverageDenyEducatedManipulateFigsEducated Man Author:John Jay Chapman
“In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it's a necessity; not simply because it is therapeutic, nor because it is the universal language, but because it is the persistent focus of our intelligence, aspiration and goodwill.” NeedsTodayPoliticalLanguageMusicFocusEconomicMusic IsUniversalIntelligenceLuxuryThese DaysTherapyAspirationPersistentGoodwillTherapeuticUniversal LanguageDisintegrationMusic And Life Author:Robert Lawson Shaw