Tom Morello Quotes

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• I came late to the genre of folk music.
• I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago.
• Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early Bob Dylan, Johnny…
• I've always been on a personal mission to save the guitar.
• America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into…
• In my own way, I was a rebellious kid.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Paul Ryan's love for Rage Against The Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against…
• 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…
• A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.
• Music and the arts feed our souls, but a decent wage puts food on the table. Musicians, fans of music, and grassroots political organizations are…
• In a world of bands called Limp Bizkit and Hoobastank, Electric Sheep rolls off the tongue like a Shakespearean love sonnet. Leave me alone.
• Being a musician is a given for me-I didn't have much choice in the matter.
• The most powerful music is music with purpose.
• When you wanna rock hard, children, lean on F#.
• If aliens came down and challenged us to a Battle of the Bands to decide the fate of Planet Earth, I would feel very confident…
• Amazingly talented singer who sang like an angry angel

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