Beats Quote by Gerard Manley Hopkins

The last thing I wanted to do was put politics into my music... because music was my escape.

— Gloria Estefan

I made the decision that my contribution needed to be more musical than political. My music was enough, politically. Art matters. Art was enough.…

— Kathleen Hanna

Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.

— Orson Welles

There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.

— Agnetha Faltskog

I felt I had a good ear, and I had the ability to sing like my influences.

— Jeff Gutt

Playing on the streets of Iraq, or in Israel or the Gaza strip, I'd sing angry protest songs against war. People would say, 'Make…

— Michael Franti

I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard…

— William Wordsworth

music became my refuge and then my salvation.

— Lena Horne

I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet.

— Maya Rudolph

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in…

— Paul Robeson

Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.

— Bruce Springsteen

My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me.

— William Christopher Handy