Art Quote by David Fricke

As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.

— Beck

I think the zenith of popular songwriting to the United States of America was that period that started in the '20s and went into…

— Linda Ronstadt

Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.

— Dan Hill

In our country there's never been a successful progressive struggle that did not have a soundtrack, whether it was the civil rights movement, workers'…

— Tom Morello

Songs consecrate to truth and liberty.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

There's a track called 'Why Not Nothing' about how the world's turning so conservative and so religious at the same time. I think it's…

— Richard Ashcroft

I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made…

— Isaac Brock

A lot of songs we've written have been political, but they're also personally political.

— Curt Smith

The protest songs of the 1960s and 70s managed to blend political and societal views with music from the heart.

— Gregory Porter

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the…

— Pete Seeger

A lot of the music that I grew up loving has a really political bent to it.

— Patterson Hood

The one thing I do believe is, if you make the songs about the human aspects of things, you've got a much better chance…

— Steven Wilson