Go Quote by Bruce Springsteen

I feel like musicians have such a precarious place in the political discourse, because musicians are, sort of just by nature, people-pleasers.

— John Flansburgh

It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good…

— Robert Smith

I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into…

— Damon Albarn

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

Musicians have been political literally since people were writing songs.

— Maggie Rogers

Musicians are like politicians. They're the last people who should be making music, just like politicians are the last people who should be running…

— Nigel Godrich

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 never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportunity to say what…

— Billy Bragg

We're musicians; we're not politicians or anything.

— Johnny Van Zant

Musicians and artists are not... it's not like politicians or something where you can't really affect them. There's not like this separate caste system…

— Bradford Cox

Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their…

— Billy Corgan

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