Tom Morello Quotes - Page 2

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• I have another name for what they're terming whistleblowers, and that's righteous heroes. From Bradley Manning to Snowden. They're people of conscience who are unwilling to turn a blind eye to the crimes of our government. And thank goodness for them.

  Tom Morello

  Hero, Eye, Government

  Interview with Robin Grearson, logger.believermag.com. August 27, 2013.

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• My take is that there's two ways to approach history. You sit in your armchair and you watch it on the news and you return to your PlayStation. Or you get out in the streets and you make it. Like, when those Supreme Court justices, you know, legalize desegregation, it wasn't due to their infinite wisdom. It's because people whose names you do not read about in history books, people whose faces you will never see, were the ones who struggled and sacrificed, sometimes gave their lives, to make this country a more equal one. When, it's like those people don't make history, it's us.

  Tom Morello

  Country, Book, People

  "Tom Morello Leads The Occupy 'Guitarmy'". Interview with Diane Sweet, crooksandliars.com. May 22, 2012.

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• If you want to change the world right now, it’s not so much a secret how you do it. You put the secrets of a criminal government on the Internet.

  Tom Morello

  Government, Secret, Criminals

  Interview with Robin Grearson, logger.believermag.com. August 27, 2013.

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• My job is to steel the backbone of people on the frontlines of social justice struggles, and to put wind in sails of those struggles. And people who are fighting on a, on a daily basis, at a grass roots level.

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  Struggle, Fighting, Justice

  "Tom Morello Leads The Occupy 'Guitarmy'". Interview with Diane Sweet, crooksandliars.com. May 22, 2012.

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• The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family - my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid - to live in the apartment building.

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  Mom, Real, Kids

  "Tom Morello on solo album, politics and racism". Interview With Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. September 29, 2011.

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• Amazingly talented singer who sang like an angry angel

  Tom Morello

  Angel, Singers, Angry

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• Unity and resistance is a strong American trait.

  Tom Morello

  Strong, Unity, Resistance

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• Things like rebellion and resistance to authority are absolutely as much a part of the human experience as love and cars are, and it's a part that doesn't get covered very much in pop music.

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  Car, Resistance, Rebellion

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• We have power not just with our voices, but we have economic power in what we do for a living, too.

  Tom Morello

  Voice, Economic, Economic Power

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• I think it's crucially important to be present in the lives of your children. They are my most important cause that I fight for. But I also feel an added responsibility that I want to leave them a better world than this one that we have now.

  Tom Morello

  Children, Responsibility, Fighting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There's a unique component of music that is different from, the written pamphlet or a speech. There's something, when you get the right combination of rhythm, melody and the right lyrical couplet, that feels like truth in the reptilian brain. There's something hardwired in our D.N.A.. And when you get a large group of people singing together in solidarity, it's something that, in my experience, and I've played countless demonstrations and protests through the years, it's something that can really help a struggle.

  Tom Morello

  Struggle, Unique, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In our country there's never been a successful progressive struggle that did not have a soundtrack, whether it was the civil rights movement, workers' rights movement, women's rights movement. There's got to be songs at the barricades, and those are the kinds of songs that I try to write.

  Tom Morello

  Country, Song, Struggle

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Whenever I set out in a new direction, whether it's with a new band or being a frontman or writing a comic book or entering into movie scoring or anything like that, I wouldn’t say that I do it fearlessly...

  Tom Morello

  Book, Writing, Band

  Interview with Robin Grearson, logger.believermag.com. August 27, 2013.

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• There's not a country on earth that doesn't feel that it might be invaded by Donald Trump's regime.

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  Country, Earth, Might

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• Poverty is curable, but it’s just not done, because it's not profitable. And that is the kind of violence that's perpetuated on humanity.

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  Humanity, Done, Poverty

  Interview with Robin Grearson, logger.believermag.com. August 27, 2013.

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• There are literally billions of people on the planet who live in an unimaginable poverty that's not in any way different from the plight of the people in Orchid. And you can't have the splendor of Rodeo Drive without the sweatshops of Indonesia; those two things go hand in hand.

  Tom Morello

  Hands, Orchids, Two

  Interview with Robin Grearson, logger.believermag.com. August 27, 2013.

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• What draws people to the instrument is the love for guitar players that play a certain way. I mean, even though it wasn't intentional, it was hard to avoid copying Eddie Van Halen. He was basically the *bleep* back then.

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  Mean, Player, Guitar

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• There are many fans of hard rock music that have been wrongly pigeonholed as apathetic. This music is not music for the elitist coffeehouse culture in SoHo. It' s rock 'n' roll music for kids across the land, and I think that makes it much more subversive in a way, in that it has the form and the function of a powerful, populist music, but it can carry very incendiary messages.

  Tom Morello

  Powerful, Kids, Thinking

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• I find it ironic that now water is more expensive than music. On the one hand, record companies can't go crying when they've gouged consumers for decades, charging exorbitant prices for CDs that cost 29 cents to make. On the other hand, when music is free, musicians starve.

  Tom Morello

  Hands, Cds, Water

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• Poverty is not an accident of, sort of, an economic spreadsheet. Poverty is a crime. There are criminals involved. And those criminals walk the streets as free men. What my music is about, and what - this from the riots in the streets of Greece and Spain to the people's uprisings in Egypt and Libya and Madison is about is holding those people accountable, those who are responsible for subverting the entire global economy and causing so much misery and then laughing about it with their, you know, clinking their champagne glasses on their yachts.

  Tom Morello

  Men, Laughing, People

  "Tom Morello Leads The Occupy 'Guitarmy'". Interview with Diane Sweet, crooksandliars.com. May 22, 2012.

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• Every story has a point of view and whether it's by what one chooses to include or exclude from a story or whether it's a very specific agenda that is pushed, there is no such thing as objective media. Once you realize that it's more than just a marketplace of ideas, it's a battleground of ideas that are suppressed and the ideas that are pushed forward in the mainstream media are the ones that independent media has a chance to address. I think that the democratization of media in that way can be very helpful in allowing the truth to come out in a way that it might not on CNN or FOX.

  Tom Morello

  Independent, Thinking, Chance

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Trump's ignorance in environmental science is a threat to the entire planet.

  Tom Morello

  Ignorance, Environmental, Trump

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• When I am most successful as a guitar player is when I'm able to just sort of lose myself. You stop thinking about technique or anything like that and just trying to evoke the emotion of that song brings, which is a very strong emotion for me.

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  Song, Strong, Successful

  "Tom Morello Leads The Occupy 'Guitarmy'". Interview with Diane Sweet, crooksandliars.com. May 22, 2012.

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• If Trump is going to govern in a fascist way, then we need to make America ungovernable.

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  America, Needs, Way

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• The reason why many young people in the Vietnam War era were active was their lives were threatened by the draft and they were going to perhaps be forced to go overseas and fight in an immoral war.

  Tom Morello

  War, Fighting, People

  Source: www.billboard.com

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