Knowledge Quote by Big Daddy Kane

If my music is political in a way, and it might be, it's in the way of generating a sensitivity in people, a deeper…

— Phil Elvrum

Politics and music should only mix to a point. Me, I think my job as a musician is to make people try to forget…

— Hank Williams III

I have my views and obviously my music has connotations that lean toward what I believe, but I've learned through other artists' mistakes that…

— Miranda Lambert

I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently to everyone…

— M.I.A

Sometimes music isn't the way to talk politics, you know?

— Gary Rossington

Because one of the properties of music is to entertain and to, I don't mean this lightly, distract us from the things that pull…

— Dave Matthews

People can have political opinions and put them into songs. I'd never deliberately do that, but that's a personal choice I'm inspired by my…

— Carla Bruni

I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do.

— Jarvis Cocker

I do have a big problem with the idea of music as a form of communication unless it's political - and that's where it's…

— Julia Holter

To me, a political song is also a personal song. Most political activism has been driven by empathy for other people and the desire…

— Conor Oberst

Politics and music don't necessarily go hand in hand. They just do for me...

— Steve Earle

Music is made by individuals. Some artists will be very politically overt in their songs, some will be more subtle. You have to be…

— Win Butler