Kind Quote by Shavo Odadjian

We're musicians; we're not politicians or anything.

— Johnny Van Zant

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

— Rickey Medlocke

I feel like musicians have such a precarious place in the political discourse, because musicians are, sort of just by nature, people-pleasers.

— John Flansburgh

In every generation, politicians let us down, but music can lift us above the fighting and the mistakes. It does not offer answers to…

— Stephen Hough

Musicians have been political literally since people were writing songs.

— Maggie Rogers

Politics and music should only mix to a point. Me, I think my job as a musician is to make people try to forget…

— Hank Williams III

Musicians used to be way more instrumental just in providing a soundtrack to what's going on in the world. And it's also important to…

— Alicia Keys

I don't think people go to musicians for their political points of view. I think your political point of view is circumstances and then…

— Bruce Springsteen

It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good…

— Robert Smith

Musicians are like politicians. They're the last people who should be making music, just like politicians are the last people who should be running…

— Nigel Godrich

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

Musicians and artists are not... it's not like politicians or something where you can't really affect them. There's not like this separate caste system…

— Bradford Cox