Issues Quote by Girl Talk

I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media,…

— Thom Yorke

I think that all music is inherently political, and, at the same time, I'm interested in the politics of inclusion not exclusion. So I…

— Rostam Batmanglij

Music is going to go in some direction that is entirely inconceivable now. If someone had been asked twenty years ago what direction they…

— Adam Yauch

If my music is political in a way, and it might be, it's in the way of generating a sensitivity in people, a deeper…

— Phil Elvrum

I don't get too political in my music, because some people tend to get bored with the message: I say what's necessary and leave…

— Big Daddy Kane

Hip-hop music has done a very good job of maintaining the political context, where they stand and not giving a sh-t what people think.

— Conor Oberst

In every generation, politicians let us down, but music can lift us above the fighting and the mistakes. It does not offer answers to…

— Stephen Hough

I can't expect rappers to be politicized when Americans are not socially motivated enough to care about their own lives and public policy as…

— Killer Mike

Because one of the properties of music is to entertain and to, I don't mean this lightly, distract us from the things that pull…

— Dave Matthews

Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.

— Dan Hill

There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and…

— Beck

For me, sampling is a high art. Most people don't see it that way, but it's a beautiful thing. I wouldn't know anything about…

— JPEGMAFIA