Behinds Quote by Damon Albarn

I don't think people go to musicians for their political points of view. I think your political point of view is circumstances and then…

— Bruce Springsteen

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

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

As a musician, I don't wanna put out political soundbites.

— Richard Ashcroft

Music is the only industry where you don't need to know what you're doing to get ahead. Well, that and politics.

— Gene Simmons

I don't like politics in music.

— Jeff Hanneman

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

Just make music; don't talk about politics.

— M.I.A

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 a hard time even calling myself a musician, but I still have to be involved in music in some capacity in my…

— James Paxton