American Quote by George Clooney

In the '60s and '70s, a protest song was a genre in music.

— Sixto Rodriguez

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

— Gregory Porter

In the 1960s, people like Bob Dylan, his music and words were a threat to the society and mainstream of the time. It shook…

— G.W. Sok

Bob Dylan was uncomfortable being known as just a protest singer. He wanted to go back into himself and do what he wanted to…

— Nat Hentoff

I suspect many readers might associate [Bob Dylan] with one of the shortest phases of his career, the time from 1963 to '65 when…

— Jay Michaelson

And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didn't - in the…

— Michael Stipe

I think if the United States gave anything to culture at large in the 20th century, the most important contribution made was the popular…

— Linda Ronstadt

So many famous iconic American songs are protest songs, and I think that the vast majority of artists will only continue to add to…

— Liv Bruce

Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects.…

— Pete Townshend

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

Bob Dylan wasn't a big star early on; it was the release of his Greatest Hits album in 1967, and the mainstream success of…

— Bob Dylan

We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of…

— Graham Nash