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“Don't let mistakes be so monumental, don't let your love be so confidential, don't let your mind be so darn judgemental, and please let your heart be more influential. Be thankful for all that the spirit provides and be thankful for all that you see without eyes.”
-- Michael Franti

#Mistake #Heart #Eye
“All the freaky people make the beauty of the world.”
-- Michael Franti

#People #World #Freak
“We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.”
-- Michael Franti

#Peace #Pieces #World
“You learn a lot when you're barefoot. The first thing is every step you take is different.”
-- Michael Franti

#Firsts #Steps #Different
“God is too big for just one religion.”
-- Michael Franti

#Bigs
“Every single soul is a poem.”
-- Michael Franti

#Poetry #Soul #Single Relationship
“Life is too short to make just one decision, music is too loud for just one station, love is too big for just one nation, and God is too big for just one religion!”
-- Michael Franti

#Life Is Too Short #Love Is #Decision
“A lot of times we look at the whole world and think, 'it's so daunting, how can we change the whole world?' and you don't need to do that, what you need to do is change your world a little bit, and see if you can, through example, inspire others to do the same thing.”
-- Michael Franti

#Thinking #Inspire #Needs
“Bonnaroo has kind of become the granddaddy of all American festivals. The thing I love about it most is that it wasn't born out of picking the top ten bands off the Billboard chart and creating a festival around it.”
-- Michael Franti

#Creating #Festivals #Band
“When many little people in many little places do many little things, then the whole world changes.”
-- Michael Franti

#People #World #Littles
“If the first casualty of war is innocence, then perhaps with each bullet fired, bomb detonated, leader overthrown, wall built, economy destroyed and family member killed, we are not creating goodwill and harmony, but rather another child who believes violence is the only means to bring about change in the world.”
-- Michael Franti

#Children #Wall #War
“I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.”
-- Michael Franti

#Night #World #Helping
“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.”
-- Michael Franti

#People #Empowering #Community
“Everyone deserves music.”
-- Michael Franti

#Deserve
“Don't fear the nighttime, cause the monsters know that you're divine. Don't fear the sunshine, cause everything's better in the summertime”
-- Michael Franti

#Sunshine #Summertime #Monsters
“Television, the drug of the nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation...”
-- Michael Franti

#Ignorance #Drug #Television
“The music industry has been hijacked by corporate interests, but the way music affects people and resonates with them hasn't changed.”
-- Michael Franti

#People #Way #Changed
“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.”
-- Michael Franti

#Kids #Home #Differences
“Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.”
-- Michael Franti

#Art #People #Together
“It's never too late to start the day over.”
-- Michael Franti

#Too Late #Start The Day
“Johnny Cash was a rebel, not only just in the musical sense, but he was somebody who was for the people, and an advocate for labor, for workers, for prisoners, people who have been trapped by the criminal justice system.”
-- Michael Franti

#Justice #People #Musical
“I went to the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship. I didn't study in high school. I was just there to get by and to play basketball. But a funny thing happened to me when I got to college. I got challenged by the work and the professors.”
-- Michael Franti

#Basketball #School #College
“The human interest, and the natural interest, and the spiritual interest of this planet need to begin to take a priority over the corporate interest, the military interest, and the materialistic interests.”
-- Michael Franti

#Spiritual #Military #Priorities
“I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went to the West Bank and Gaza Strip because I wanted to see what three generations of occupation had done to Palestinian society. I found a lot more hopelessness and despair in Palestine.”
-- Michael Franti

#Years #Iraq #Despair
“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.”
-- Michael Franti

#Media #Diversity #Agendas
“San Francisco has always been a haven for misfits and weirdos. I'm both of those, which is why I came here.”
-- Michael Franti

#San Francisco #Misfits #Weirdo
“Star Wars is mythology. Its like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. Its the story of good versus evil over a very long span of time. The storytelling is universal and timeless.”
-- Michael Franti

#Stars #War #Long
“Through music I either tame my demons or unleash them and allow them to be what they are. I don't want the music to be about provocation, I want the music to bring you to a place where you feel at home”
-- Michael Franti

#Music #Home #Want
“When you're in Jamaica, unless you're in a tourist spot, you don't hear Bob Marley; you mostly hear dance hall music.”
-- Michael Franti

#Jamaica #Bob #Tourists
“Every single soul is a poem, written on the back of God's hand”
-- Michael Franti

#Hands #Soul

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