Born Quote by Joni Mitchell

Living in war, and being a wartime band, I don't think there's any way that can't somehow influence the songwriting.

— Colin Meloy

A lot of songwriters have written about soldiers and war, but very few have written with them.

— Mary Gauthier

I love SongwritingWith:Soldiers.

— Mary Gauthier

After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the…

— Quincy Jones

Can you imagine in 1968 some band being like, "Vietnam is the place to be!"

— Josh Jones

“I keep thinking about all the kids who got wiped out by seventeen years of war movies before coming to Vietnam to get wiped…

— Michael Herr

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

But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10…

— Anonymous

I wanted to write a song that was outright against war, in any form.

— Declan McKenna

When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the…

— Theodore White

The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.

— Heinrich Heine

I recall this sergeant's informing me and my "room-mates" of this rather deplorable fact the army didn't have any official, excuse me, didn't have…

— Tom Lehrer