Democracy Quote by Wayne Hussey

I was making the music and writing the songs which reflected the emerging consciousness of my generation.

— Donovan

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

I was immersed in popular songs of the time, of the '30s and '40s. I was writing songs, making fun of the attitudes of…

— Tom Lehrer

I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way of understanding the world.

— Greil Marcus

I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all.…

— Bruce Cockburn

Writing songs was like my ticket to the world, I think.

— Bill Callahan

In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn't have a unique perspective.

— Kacey Musgraves

During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there…

— Joan Baez

It was a great time to be making music because everything else was changing.

— Gordon Waller

When it came to the music that we produced, I am pretty happy with what we did.

— Anonymous

I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost diametrically opposed to my…

— K. Flay

Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into…

— Ice T