Quotes About Revolution

Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.

With my music, I create change...I am using my music as a weapon.

Music is the weapon. Music is the weapon of the future.

There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.

Without Elvis none of us could have made it.

The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free.

My music is made for the people who are willing to stand up to change this world themselves.

A lot of people think that the music was responsible for a lot of changes in the Sixties, but I think the music came out of it. The music wouldnt have happened without the social changes.

When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you had no musical training.

Hip Hop was supposed to be this new thing that had no boundaries and was so different to everyday music. As long as it has soul to it, hip hop can live on.

If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.

With your whole body, with your whole heart, with your whole conscience, listen to the Revolution....This is the music everyone who has ears should hear.

Music used to cause revolutions and I'm not seeing much revolution anymore.

Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution - the 60's comes from it.

To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms.

If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll.

People who try to create a musical revolution do not have a chance, but those who turn their back to music can sometimes find it.

Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement.

Jimi Hendrix once said, 'You will never hear surf music again.' Well, tonight, you will hear 'serf' music again - S-E-R-F music.

I was horrified by modern 12-tone music. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can find something different... maybe salvation, liberation, is possible.

Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.

Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere!

Revolution in America begins in books and music, then waits for political operatives to 'implement changes after the fact.'

I think Kurt Cobain and Nirvana represent this giant wave that came crashing in and turned music on its head again, and there's definitely something to be said for that.