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Always question the authority.
In my own way, I was a rebellious kid.
I came late to the genre of folk music.
The skin you're in makes choices for you...
The most powerful music is music with purpose.
When you wanna rock hard, children, lean on F#.
Unity and resistance is a strong American trait.
The problem is not cop killers...it's killer cops.
I named my son after Randy Rhoads - Rhoads Morello.
'Purple Rain,' the album, is a great guitar record.
Amazingly talented singer who sang like an angry angel
I've always been on a personal mission to save the guitar.
I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.
When you pick up a guitar, you don't put down your First Amendment rights.
Being a musician is a given for me-I didn't have much choice in the matter.
Tonight, it's the rock and roll all night and party every day hall of fame.
Bad presidents make for great music, and I'm gonna do my best to provide it.
Trump's ignorance in environmental science is a threat to the entire planet.
Progressive, radical, or even revolutionary change has always come from below.
If Trump is going to govern in a fascist way, then we need to make America ungovernable.
My music is made for the people who are willing to stand up to change this world themselves.
Sacrifice and neon lights, Slaveships don't wait, Love many, trust few, And don't be late...
I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago.
You can kiss my Kiss-loving ass because Kiss was never a critic's band. It was a people's band.
The system under which we live is owned and operated by people who do not deserve to run the world.
We have power not just with our voices, but we have economic power in what we do for a living, too.
There's not a country on earth that doesn't feel that it might be invaded by Donald Trump's regime.
A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.
I am not the least bit surprised that injustice persists. I'm also not surprised that resistance to injustice persists.
I'm a Chicago Cubs fan. I grew up in Libertyville, Illinois, and attended my first game at Wrigley Field when I was four.
I literally integrated the small town of Libertyville, Illinois. I was the first person of color to reside within its borders.
I've played hundreds of protests. I've marched on dozens of picket lines. I've strummed my guitar at innumerable demonstrations.
My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anticolonial movement.
My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anti-colonial movement.
I'd say that one area where my political views have remained unchanged is that, I am opposed to the government spying on everybody.
There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to confront in my life as an activist.
There are many pop stars who are great performers - but there is no chart-topping pop star in history who could play guitar like Prince.
Poverty is curable, but it’s just not done, because it's not profitable. And that is the kind of violence that's perpetuated on humanity.
In a world of bands called Limp Bizkit and Hoobastank, Electric Sheep rolls off the tongue like a Shakespearean love sonnet. Leave me alone.
Of course, music is an art form, and it's not all that competitive. But we don't ever intend to be the second-best band on a stage at any show.
Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there.
If you want to change the world right now, it’s not so much a secret how you do it. You put the secrets of a criminal government on the Internet.
We've been able to have our cake and eat it, too. Every song, every T-shirt, is absolutely a pure expression of what we want to do. And it connects.
What is poverty, if not violence. Like, the number of people who die every year from starvation and from hunger and poverty is in the tens of millions.
I think that new artistic challenges help you grow both as a person, as an artist, and then they feed back into your other work, and tend to magnify it.
Paul Ryan's love of Rage Against the Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades.
Paul Ryan's love for Rage Against The Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades
This unprecedented racism, bigotry and proto-fascist agenda that Donald Trump is trying to shove down America's throat has unleashed the resistance that will dethrone him.
My one wish for humanity is that everyone can become the person they were meant to be - what are the barriers to that? Often it's crushing poverty or certain circumstances.
'Underrated.' That is the word that best describes Prince, the Guitarist. Why? Because his phenomenal guitar-playing was just one arrow in a quiver full of remarkable talents.