America Quote by Serj Tankian

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

People think the world of music is so great, and it's just not. It's so boring, the way music is conceived and then declawed…

— Josh Tillman

Music is worth doing just because. It doesn’t have to be justified by some political point of view, and it’s kind of insulting to…

— Elliott Smith

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

What is music in America? It's this stand-in for political action in a lot of senses. We have no democracy and we have no…

— Ian Svenonius

Music can be a distraction and an escape. Sometimes a welcome escape. You need it. But music can also serve a very important social…

— Howard Zinn

I don't find music being less important than, like, politics.

— Kurt Loder

Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together…

— Anonymous

Music is politics - it always has been and it always will be.

— Thea Gilmore

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

I don't think music should be played anywhere near politics. The two don't go together.

— Leon Redbone

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

— Brian Eno