Musician Activist Quotes

#1. Books are only half our job ; the other half is human nature.

Mary Virginia Provines

#2. In preparing the soil for planting, you will need several tools. Dynamite would be a beautiful thing to use, but it would have a tendency to get the dirt into the front-hall and track up the stairs.

Robert Benchley

#3. We believe in treating others as we would want to be treated.

Terry Goodkind

#4. I feel really privileged that I've been able to be an activist and a musician for over 20 years now, and I've always been able to say whatever I want. I think that's something we Americans really take for granted, but it's a big deal, and it's not something most people in the world are able to do.

Corin Tucker

#5. It's been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good entertainer. You can't do it all, but I have walked those delicate lines as best I know how.

Holly Near

#6. What's beautiful about Godzilla is, of course, it's in every way a symbol of Japan dealing with the aftermath of the atomic bombs being dropped on them, and their ideas of how they're affected by it.

Victor LaValle

#7. I don't want to spend all my time working as an activist. I don't get satisfaction out of it. I'd rather be doing something else. I'm a musician.

Serj Tankian

#8. The more you are able to forgive then the more you are able to love.

Stephen Richards

#9. We all either underestimate each other, or else exaggerate each other's virtues. Very few people are capable of assessing others as they deserve. It is a particular gift. In fact I would even say that only the great are capable of it.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#10. Oh, Anya! Let's have an intense spiritual relationship for no believable reason!

Vera Brosgol

#11. Of course. Treasure hunts make much better stories when there's treasure at the end.

Eric Berlin

#12. After all, that's what you're best at, isn't it? Watching?

Julie Kagawa

#13. God is love. Prejudice and hatred is an act of man. -Tooji

Tooji Keshtkar

#14. The true ninja doesn't make a splash at all.

John Green

#15. We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 people which is a significant number of deaths, but nowhere near as high as it could have been.

Michael Burgess

#16. What I always hate is when people call our movement a 'revolution'. For this to be a revolution, we would have to be opposing a standing government. Look around; there is no standing government.

Joe Reyes

#17. Right," Sadie said. "And Set will just stand there calmly while I read him to death.

Rick Riordan

#18. As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.

Michelle Shocked

#19. Softness was for kittens, pillows and pretty cashmere sweaters. Sex needed to be hard, hot and oh-so-rough around the edges.

Lauren Blakely