Best Morello Quotes

#1. Things like rebellion and resistance to authority are absolutely as much a part of the human experience as love and cars are, and it's a part that doesn't get covered very much in pop music.

Tom Morello

#2. Poverty is curable, but it's just not done, because it's not profitable. And that is the kind of violence that's perpetuated on humanity.

Tom Morello

#3. For the millennium [New Year's Eve], you really have a choice to make. You either have to be naked with your head on fire and a shotgun in Bali or else you have to spend time with friends or family around the fireplace. And I'm choosing option B

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#4. My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anti-colonial movement.

Tom Morello

#5. If you want to change the world right now, it's not so much a secret how you do it. You put the secrets of a criminal government on the Internet.

Tom Morello

#6. I'd say that one area where my political views have remained unchanged is that, I am opposed to the government spying on everybody.

Tom Morello

#7. There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to confront in my life as an activist.

Tom Morello

#8. I don't want to leave this mess around my children to clean up. I want to swing absolutely as hard as I can to straighten things out before they get to the age where it starts hurting them.

Tom Morello

#9. I came late to the genre of folk music.

Tom Morello

#10. The skin you're in makes choices for you.

Tom Morello

#11. I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago.

Tom Morello

#12. Whenever I set out in a new direction, whether it's with a new band or being a frontman or writing a comic book or entering into movie scoring or anything like that, I wouldn't say that I do it fearlessly.

Tom Morello

#13. When Tom Morello picks up the guitar, I'm sure what he sees is totally different from what I do, but I love the way he plays.

Joe Perry

#14. Tonight, it's the rock and roll all night and party every day hall of fame

Tom Morello

#15. I myself am a very, very peaceful person. Throughout our history, from our own American revolution to the resistance against apartheid in South Africa, to labor strikes in the US, people have resorted to violence to achieve a more progressive society, from time to time.

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#16. Of course, music is an art form, and it's not all that competitive. But we don't ever intend to be the second-best band on a stage at any show.

Tom Morello

#17. A good song should make you wanna tap your foot and get with your girl. A great song should destroy cops and set fire to the suburbs. I'm only interested in writing great songs.

Tom Morello

#18. Too bad that Paul Ryan confessed to being a fan of Rage Against The Machine. By doing so, he not only begged for a bucketing by many of their fans but actually got one from the band's guitar player, Tom Morello.

Henry Rollins

#19. In a world of bands called Limp Bizkit and Hoobastank, Electric Sheep rolls off the tongue like a Shakespearean love sonnet. Leave me alone.

Tom Morello

#20. Well, I don't care for Paul Ryan's sound or his lyrics. He can like whatever bands he wants, but his guiding vision of shifting revenue more radically to the one percent is antithetical to the message of Rage.

Tom Morello

#21. Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there.

Tom Morello

#22. When real substantive change happens it's the people who watch your show, they're the ones that make it happen. It's people whose names are not highlighted in history books. They're the ones that stand up in their place and time to make change.

Tom Morello

#23. Charles Manson loved the Beatles but didn't understand them. Governor Chris Christie loves Bruce Springsteen but doesn't understand him. And Paul Ryan is clueless about his favorite band, Rage Against the Machine.

Tom Morello

#24. I think you might be considered a terrorist for asking the question! It can be so broadly defined now. And the thing is, you're not privy to those decisions. Anyone who expresses any opinion can be considered a terrorist.

Tom Morello

#25. The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five's each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have is a grotesque disparity between the rich and poor that is only getting wider.

Tom Morello

#26. I literally integrated the small town of Libertyville, Illinois. I was the first person of color to reside within its borders.

Tom Morello

#27. I think it's crucially important to be present in the lives of your children. They are my most important cause that I fight for. But I also feel an added responsibility that I want to leave them a better world than this one that we have now.

Tom Morello

#28. Bashing the elite is what I'm all about in my music because they absolutely don't deserve the privileged position that they're in, and we're seeing this around the globe right now.

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#29. Always question the authority.

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#30. The most powerful music is music with purpose.

Tom Morello

#31. A musician's or artist's responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth,

Tom Morello

#32. It was never supposed to be a hit. It was supposed to be a Joe Morello drum solo,

Paul Desmond

#33. I feel fortunate to have made records during an era where people actually bought music. But I have friends in struggling up-and-coming bands that will certainly never be able to pay the rent, because music has been devalued.

Tom Morello

#34. In my own way, I was a rebellious kid.

Tom Morello