First amendment Quote by John Densmore

If I ever hear "Power to the people" again, I'llà I just found out that John Lennon wrote that song, "All we are saying…

— Garry Winogrand

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

— Gregory Porter

The idea that musicians should be talking about politics is, in some ways, quite a sixties' idea. Music no longer has a vanguard role…

— Billy Bragg

When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth.

— Bjork

Everybody marches to a different drummer.

— Hugh Hefner

“I was marching to the beat of my own drummer, and I was clearly out of step with reality.”

— Robin Schwarz

I didn't have a lot of overtly political songs. I think it was more the actions of the group that were threatening to the…

— Greg Ginn

David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing…

— Eddie Van Halen

“No matter how corrupt or greedy our government is, our corporations, our media, our religious and charitable institutions may come, the music will still…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“The dichotomy of a drummer: worshiped but forgotten.”

— C.M. Stunich

The protest years were over, not just for me but for a whole generation, and in music, just like in politics, many of the…

— Nina Simone

When you sing that this country was founded on freedom, don't forget the duet of shackles dragging against the ground my entire life.

— Clint Smith