Top 89 Quotes 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.

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.

I have a desire that I want to make people feel happy through my music. I'm always trying to find optimistic ways to express myself.

To sit back and say, 'Oh, we're going to let the government do whatever they want, right or wrong,' is giving up.

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.

People underestimate the hip-hop audience and the capacity to understand politics when it's part of music.

I hope I inspire people to dream bigger than what they are living, but a dream within their reach.

I've always found that the poorer the places that I go, the more smiles I see, and the more happiness I see.

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?'

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.