Quotes About Protest Songs

#1. Where have all the flowers gone

Marlene Dietrich

#2. Playing on the streets of Iraq, or in Israel or the Gaza strip, I'd sing angry protest songs against war. People would say, 'Make us clap, make us dance, and laugh and sing.' It really made me think about the importance of happy music.

Michael Franti

#3. Why don't we leave this pot on to simmer for a while?

Paige Tyler

#4. I try to make all my songs good. I don't ever write one to finish one. A lot of protest songs end up that way, driven by some kind of emotional response.

Conor Oberst

#5. None of us are claiming that the statistical analysts understand the game of football as well as the football coaches do, or that our analysis should take precedence over the informed opinions of experts. I'm not saying that at all.

Bill James

#6. No more humiliation for me, thanks very much. No more swallowing my anger. Honestly, I couldn't manage another mouthful. But it was delicious. Did you make it yourself?

Marian Keyes

#7. No one was enchanted beyond saving in the songs. The hero always saved them. There was no ugly moment in a dark cellar where the countess wept and cried out protest while three wizards put the count to death, and then made court politics out of it.

Naomi Novik

#8. I won't be indulging in anger anymore, vehemently and self-righteously singing protest songs, and expecting them to bring peace to me or anyone else.

Susan Schneider

#9. For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs. Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#10. Part of my success with urban bachata is reinventing yourself as an artist and continuing to give people different kind of fusions, mixing up the elements and concepts without changing the beat.

Romeo Santos

#11. I think most people either forget or don't know that Microsoft only hires people with I.Q.'s well over 130.

Douglas Coupland

#12. We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#13. Crowley didn't have a very high opinion of women, and I don't think he was wrong.

Jimmy Page

#14. Loving humans
means
writing poems & songs
novels & plays, slogans, chants
& protest signs
our critics
want
to stone
us for
while
we think of
them
as people
under different
circumstances
we might
be able
to help

Alice Walker

#15. Performing magic has a lot to do with the arrangement of apparent coincidences and providing pathways along which desires can travel, or, to put it in more basic terms, there's little point in sigilizing for a lottery win if you don't also buy a lottery ticket.

Grant Morrison

#16. It wasn't my natural inclination to get into writing protest songs.

David Sylvian

#17. In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were songs about the civil rights movement, the women's rights movement, the antiwar movement. It wasn't just Bob Dylan, it was everybody at the time.

George Clooney

#18. Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take.

David Levithan

#19. And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.

Bill Bruford

#20. In a Ramada Inn near the grapevine, they stop to rest for the night. Traveling down south, looking for good times. Visiting old friends feels right.

Neil Young

#21. History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.

Hugh Evans

#22. [ ... ] Villain I am none.
Therefore farewell. I see thou knowest me not.

William Shakespeare