Beautiful Quote by Sixto Rodriguez

Because of who I am, and how open I am, there's something inherently political about just writing love songs.

— Rostam Batmanglij

Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can.

— Serj Tankian

Writing songs about fancying people in dance clubs is all very well but it's not the be-all and end-all. There are other topics.

— Anonymous

We're not writing songs to solve a cultural problem. The goal for us is to express what we're going through, and it's great if…

— Ben Hopkins

I think it's really hard to make songs that pursue an agenda. You can kind of do it a little bit through a character,…

— David Byrne

When you write songs you're commenting on love, you're commenting on sex, relationships, whatever it is that you decide to write about it. And…

— Joan Jett

A lot of songs we've written have been political, but they're also personally political.

— Curt Smith

We have always been a big fan of party songs, and we don't think a politically significant song is any harder to write than…

— Jani Lane

I don't set out to write a political song. I am not one of those that feels compelled to write about what's going on.

— Stephen Stills

I don't write political music. Political music is immediately obsolete.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do.

— Jarvis Cocker

There's political content in almost every song we've ever written on some level. It colors everything.

— Aaron Dessner