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Music helps me tell my story. That's where I can really be heard. But there's so much focus on the things that aren't music.
Quote by -Rihanna
I find that when I get on stage now, I don't want to perform a lot of my songs because they don't feel like me. So I want to make songs that are timeless.
Quote by -Rihanna
I love making music. That's what I love to do. So I don't feel like there's any need to take a break unless I want to.
Quote by -Rihanna
It's easy to make an album full of great songs. But I want people to go for the ride. The songs have to make sense together.
Quote by -Rihanna
My musical taste and image is going to change naturally. It's not forced; I do what comes natural to me. Sometimes, I like to be dark... other times, I like to be really light and ladylike.
Quote by -Rihanna
It is one thing to record an album but it's a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it.
Quote by -Rihanna
Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados. When I shot my 1st video I worked really hard with my choreographer to perfect the routines.
Quote by -Rihanna
If you're performing music that is not who you are or where you're at, it is painful. It's painful for the performer and for the audience.
Quote by -Rihanna
You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.
Quote by -Robert Duvall
I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.
Quote by -Robert Duvall
You can bomb the world to pieces, but you can't bomb it into peace. Power to the peaceful.
Quote by -Michael Franti
The corporate media is there to push the agenda of the sponsors, and many of those sponsors are weapons manufacturers. So it stands to reason that you won't get a diversity of opinions on television.
Quote by -Michael Franti
I'm a news junkie who's constantly reading newspapers and magazines. I look around and see what's happening in the world.
Quote by -Michael Franti
Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.
Quote by -Michael Franti
My mother, she made sure all of us were treated the same and had the same opportunity to grow and develop, so that when we left the house, we could fly on our own. And she also knew when we got out into the world, we'd treat others that we came across with that same treatment and respect.
Quote by -Michael Franti
My music is part of the quest I have to find new ways of telling stories, and also, I want to inspire people.
Quote by -Michael Franti
The more places I go to, the more I realize I understand so little about the world.
Quote by -Michael Franti
The way the music comes to you starts to affect how you listen to music. When you're a kid, it's 'Does it rock? Does it make me feel good? Does it make me tap my feet? Does it make me go to sleep?'
Quote by -Michael Franti
Music is too loud for just one station, love is too large for just one nation life is too short to make just one decision and god is too big for just one religion.
Quote by -Michael Franti
I really believe that, as an artist, my opportunity to help to bring about awakening is one that should come from a personal process that someone has, and not from me telling somebody that this is the way it is.
Quote by -Michael Franti
My usual day is I get up around 11 o'clock and do yoga and then eat afterwards. Then I have sound check and play soccer and do running with the guys in the band after sound check, and then do the show and eat dinner after the show and usually get to bed around 3 o'clock by the time we get everybody on the bus and get rolling.
Quote by -Michael Franti
I really encourage people to travel so we can see how the rest of the world views our country. That's really important. Secondly, as artists, activists, and citizens who vote, we have to begin to vote from our heart.
Quote by -Michael Franti
It doesn't matter if you're black, white, gay, straight, come from different countries, different language... every single person is significant and is meaningful.
Quote by -Michael Franti
Traveling to the Middle East and playing music for people on the street, for soldiers, for people in hospitals, and for people who lost their homes, and seeing people open up through the experience of music really restored my faith in music, in art, and in culture to change things.
Quote by -Michael Franti
When someone can't afford to wear shoes, it's not just about them not having shoes on that day. It's about a cycle of poverty that exists within their community.
Quote by -Michael Franti
I came up playing in both punk rock bands and hip-hop bands, and I found a more universal way of reaching people, especially with music that has a message to it.
Quote by -Michael Franti
With all the people hating and hurting each other, I don't understand how people could get upset about people of the same sex caring for each other.
Quote by -Michael Franti
Everybody's opinion is equally valid, and I feel like everybody should have an opportunity to speak out, and everyone should have the courage to speak out.
Quote by -Michael Franti
When I first started, my songs were the politics of anger. As I got older and hopefully wiser, I wanted to be part of the politics of answers.
Quote by -Michael Franti
Many kids in foster homes have a lot of emotions that are hard to get out. It's important to let them know they can make a difference in the community.
Quote by -Michael Franti
My house was filled with music. We had a piano, and my brothers and sisters played instruments. Even though I was around it, I played basketball.
Quote by -Michael Franti
Music was a central part of my childhood because my mother played organ and piano in the church, and that meant all us kids had to be in the church choir.
Quote by -Michael Franti
'Star Wars' is mythology. It's like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. It's the story of good versus evil over a very long span of time. The storytelling is universal and timeless.
Quote by -Michael Franti
You get everything you could have ever wished for if you're willing to give that eternal bliss away to somebody else, to give it back.
Quote by -Michael Franti