Always Quote by John Prine

It wasn't my natural inclination to get into writing protest songs.

— David Sylvian

I try to make all my songs good. I don't ever write one to finish one. A lot of protest songs end up that…

— Conor Oberst

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

My rules for a protest song are, if it's going to be hectoring or if it's going to be naive or ridiculously idealistic, just…

— Matty Healy

The nice thing about a protest song is that it takes the complaint, the fussing, the finger-pointing, and gives it an added component of…

— Nicholson Baker

The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.

— Joan Baez

Protest is patriotic. Since the beginning of musical time, American singers and songwriters have used their talent and bully pulpits to show us America's…

— Shawn Amos

A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit

— Phil Ochs

I just write songs because l enjoy it, l never thought to be an activist. If that's what l am then that's cool, but…

— Declan McKenna

I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why…

— John Lennon

My concern has always been to write songs that my audience, my fans are able to identify with.

— Guru Randhawa

I used to have a protest folk band in high school, and I wrote all my own songs. Then, in the B-52s, we would…

— Kate Pierson