Acts Quote by Adam McKay

I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music.

— Chico Hamilton

Other than Green Day, we haven't had a lot of protest music over the past few decades.

— Adam McKay

I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.

— Nina Simone

Protest is patriotic. Since the beginning of musical time, American singers and songwriters have used their talent and bully pulpits to show us America's…

— Shawn Amos

So many famous iconic American songs are protest songs, and I think that the vast majority of artists will only continue to add to…

— Liv Bruce

The nice thing about a protest song is that it takes the complaint, the fussing, the finger-pointing, and gives it an added component of…

— Nicholson Baker

To me, protesting and playing music go hand in hand.

— Tim Commerford

A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit

— Phil Ochs

Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take.

— David Levithan

My rules for a protest song are, if it's going to be hectoring or if it's going to be naive or ridiculously idealistic, just…

— Matty Healy

I understand why people get desensitized and roll their eyes when they hear a protest song, or even a politician making some flowery speech.…

— Conor Oberst

You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.

— Paul Kantner