Action Quote by Ian Svenonius

There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.

— Earle Brown

In America, there's more of the question, should music be political or should it just be for entertainment purposes, whereas around the world that's…

— Serj Tankian

All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.

— Brian Eno

As far as politically how country music goes, it's true that it's regarded from a distance as a genre of music that at different…

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

In times of totalitarian or autocratic rule, music (indeed culture in general) is often the only avenue of independent thought. It is the only…

— Daniel Barenboim

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

We're about music. We're not about politics.

— Rickey Medlocke

The aggressive, energised, political, or even politicised, culturally aware music hasn't really existed [recently].

— Moby

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

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

I do have a big problem with the idea of music as a form of communication unless it's political - and that's where it's…

— Julia Holter

Most of the problems that we have are brought on by the government and not by music. Music is a mirror of what we're…

— Ice Cube