Song Quotes by Tom Morello

The most powerful music is music with purpose.

— Tom Morello

“We offer a stark contrast to the bland escapism that chokes the charts,”

— Tom Morello

Bad presidents make for great music, and I'm gonna do my best to provide it.

— Tom Morello

We've been able to have our cake and eat it, too. Every song, every T-shirt, is absolutely a pure expression of what…

— Tom Morello

If aliens came down and challenged us to a Battle of the Bands to decide the fate of Planet Earth, I would…

— Tom Morello

Paul Ryan's love for Rage Against The Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has…

— Tom Morello

You can kiss my Kiss-loving ass because Kiss was never a critic's band. It was a people's band.

— Tom Morello

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

— Tom Morello

The one thing that Hendrix had that is unique among extraordinary guitar players is he had songs that were on the radio.…

— Tom Morello

Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to…

— Tom Morello

My music is made for the people who are willing to stand up to change this world themselves.

— Tom Morello

I feel fortunate to have made records during an era where people actually bought music. But I have friends in struggling up-and-coming…

— Tom Morello

What draws people to the instrument is the love for guitar players that play a certain way. I mean, even though it…

— Tom Morello

When I am most successful as a guitar player is when I'm able to just sort of lose myself. You stop thinking…

— Tom Morello

My music is - there's no litmus test, there's no political litmus test for listening to it - but I am never…

— Tom Morello

In our country there's never been a successful progressive struggle that did not have a soundtrack, whether it was the civil rights…

— Tom Morello

There are many fans of hard rock music that have been wrongly pigeonholed as apathetic. This music is not music for the…

— Tom Morello

A good song should make you wanna tap your foot and get with your girl. A great song should destroy cops and…

— Tom Morello