Protest Songs Quotes:

A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit

- Phil Ochs

source: Liner notes for compilation album "The Broadside Tapes 1" by Phil Ochs, 1989.

topic: Song, Mistake, Bullshit, Protest Songs

It wasn't my natural inclination to get into writing protest songs.

- David Sylvian

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Song, Writing, Natural, Protest Songs

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

- Elie Wiesel

source: Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.182, Schocken

topic: Freedom, Philosophy, Military, Justice And Injustice, Injustice In The World

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

- Bob Marley

topic: Inspirational, Life, Music, Jamaican Music, Individual Rights

The nice thing about a protest song is that it takes the complaint, the fussing, the finger-pointing, and gives it an added component of sociable harmony.

- Nicholson Baker

source: "Four Protest Songs". www.newyorker.com. October 8, 2012.

topic: Song, Nice, Giving, Sociable, Protest Songs

The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.

- Joan Baez

topic: Song, Writing, Protest, Protest Songs

In the ’60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were songs about the civil rights movement, the women’s rights movement, the antiwar movement. It wasn’t just Bob Dylan, it was everybody at the time.

- George Clooney

source: "George Clooney on Good Night and Good Luck". Interview with Rob Nelson, www.motherjones.com. November 2005.

topic: Song, Growing Up, Rights, Protest Songs

Where have all the flowers gone

- Marlene Dietrich

topic: Flower, Gone, Protest Songs

I understand why people get desensitized and roll their eyes when they hear a protest song, or even a politician making some flowery speech. It doesn't really change anything.

- Conor Oberst

topic: Song, Eye, People, Protest Songs

Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take.

- David Levithan

source: David Levithan (2008). “Wide Awake”, p.5, Knopf Books for Young Readers

topic: Song, Long, Form, Protest Songs

Playing on the streets of Iraq, or in Israel or the Gaza strip, I'd sing angry protest songs against war. People would say, 'Make us clap, make us dance, and laugh and sing.' It really made me think about the importance of happy music.

- Michael Franti

topic: Song, War, Thinking, Protest Songs, Happy Music

I won't be indulging in anger anymore, vehemently and self-righteously singing protest songs, and expecting them to bring peace to me or anyone else.

- Susan Schneider

topic: Song, Self, Singing, Protest Songs

I suspect many readers might associate [Bob Dylan] with one of the shortest phases of his career, the time from 1963 to '65 when he wrote his most famous "protest songs," like "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin.'"

- Jay Michaelson

source: Source: www.thedailybeast.com

topic: Song, Wind, Careers, Protest Songs