Quotes About Revolution

E debbasi considerare come non è cosa più difficile a trattare, né più dubia a riuscire, né più pericolosa a maneggiare, che farsi capo ad introdurre nuovi ordini.

It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things.

Once we have learned how to see the world, we have taken only one of the required steps. The point is to change it.

The period which this Chapter covers witnessed the dawn of a revolution in Western worship – the introduction of musical instruments. As we saw in Volume One, the early Church did not use instruments in its worship, regarding them as Jewish or Pagan, but not part of the apostolic tradition of Christian worship.

We've never tried to fit any mould because we already broke the one we started.

The '60s are my favorite decade - with the Cold War, the women's movement. And then there's the music, the fashion, the clothes, the hair.

The mindfulness revolution is not quite as dramatic as the moon shot or the civil rights movement, but I believe, in the long run, it can have just as great an impact.

Our mass movement will shatter this communal, fascist and autocratic center.

And yet it moves.

The only way to change something is to shock it. If you want your muscles to grow, you have to shock them. If you want society to change, you have to shock them.

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

Late 20th century music was a really important thing. It changed the world, and I'm part of that, and now I'm part of the museum that celebrates that.

I don't want music to be a museum.

What I wanted to do is put forth, musically, the idea that there's hope that we can change the system.

I know they call it the British Invasion, but musically, I call it the British Infusion.

Chuck Berry told me if it wasn't for Louis Jordan, he wouldn't have probably ever even got into music. That Louis Jordan changed everything and made him want to become a musician.

The king must die so that the country can live.

And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.

I wanted to make some of the really important things of my generation and some of the biggest.

The Gen X generation never got past 'Reality Bites,' apparently, and my generation, the Gen Yers... Facebook? Maybe a conservative revolution?

Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.

When we overthrew Mubarak, we did this in 18 days. And because we were very naive and very unexperienced in revolutions, we thought that that was it. It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days. So we were very naive.

Rock'n'roll has to be destroyed and rebuilt in my name if it's ever gonna accomplish anything.

Disco is the first technology music. And what I mean is that 'disco' music is named after discs, because when technology grew to where they didn't need a band in the clubs, the DJ played it on a disc.