Quotes About Freedom

I mean, it didn't matter to me that there were people, it didn't matter that I was shy Just the sound was so captivating that it helped me to get rid of those inhibitions.

Not to sound overly cheesy but I really appreciate the freedom we have in America - especially as a female.

It may sound cliched, but it just shows that when you don't let people put you in a box then anything can happen.

Liberty and equality are captivating sounds, but they often captivate to destroy.

'Redemption' sounds like a jubilee. Like a second line, if you will.

It sounds a cliche but when I'm on stage I'm at my most relaxed, I feel most like myself. When I have the music and the costumes and everyone else around me, that's when I feel most free.

Maybe a part of me recognized how right the improvising spirit of jazz is. Not the sounds, but the freedom to work with musicians who work that way. It felt very natural to me, but I think there's a way to do it without it being a jazz record.

For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.

Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.

For me, open source is a moral thing.

Freedom is the source of human creativity and development.

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.

We were very happy when a South African court, which had previously ruled against us, took another look and decided that this material was not obscene and allowed it into the country.

We want Nelson Mandela and the people of South Africa to know that we will stand shoulder to shoulder, hip to hip, until apartheid is eradicated.

I went on safari in South Africa just after apartheid had ended.

Do you think that the people of South Africa, or anywhere on the continent of Africa, or India, or Pakistan are longing to be kicked around all over again?

I have always had great respect for former president Mandela. The personal sacrifices he made in order to achieve what was right for the people of South Africa is something I carry with me every day.

I helped found Artists for New South Africa, but it used to be called Artists for Free South Africa. Alfre Woodard and a bunch of us started this.

As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.

There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.

Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was in South Africa when he was inaugurated as the first president.