Latest Michael Franti Quotes from Interviews

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• There's sometimes when I feel really balanced, and there's other times when I feel like I'm trying to keep juggling too many balls in the air, and I feel like I'm on the edge of dropping all of them and having them all land on my head, you know? Scheduling is a big part of it, and the other is just remaining flexible and keeping a sense of humor about things.

  Michael Franti

  Air, Land, Trying

• Having personal things in balance is more important than the other.

  Michael Franti

  Balance, Important, Personal Things

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• The hardest part about what I do, the most vulnerable place is my relationship with my family and Sara, my amazing partner, because I'm leaving a lot. And as a touring artist, I'm constantly coming and going, but also when I'm at home, my studio's at home. I'm leaving to go into a music world in my head.

  Michael Franti

  Home, Artist, Leaving

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• The most difficult part for me is feeling connected to the people that I love but always being on the go to different places.

  Michael Franti

  People, Feelings, Different

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I believe that in order to tackle the big issues of the world today, like environmental issues, we need everybody's involvement. We need the resources of the corporate world. We need the cooperation of governments. We need the wisdom of indigenous people.

  Michael Franti

  Believe, Government, Order

• We don't have to be good, you know? No one's telling us that we have to do good things, but we do them because we know it makes other people feel good and it makes us feel good.

  Michael Franti

  People, Feel Good, Good Things

• It's that transformative nature of love and music and yoga that really inspires me.

  Michael Franti

  Yoga, Inspire, Music And Love

• My yoga practice, I do it because when I get on my mat, I know I'm going to be transformed. I know that whatever stresses are in my life or whatever worries I have or whatever monkey mind is happening for me, when I get off the mat, I'm going to be transformed.

  Michael Franti

  Stress, Yoga, Practice

• I think that the transformative nature of love is why we are so drawn to it.

  Michael Franti

  Love Is, Thinking

• I want to promote positivity.

  Michael Franti

  Positivity, Want

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I always know when a song is good or close to finished. When I sing it, it makes me feel the emotion. My tears will start flowing or I'll start laughing. I'll start feeling whatever intensity or emotion was the seed of that song.

  Michael Franti

  Song, Laughing, Feelings

• I believe that through positive thoughts, speech, action and attitudes, we change things for the better.

  Michael Franti

  Attitude, Believe, Speech

• I have a passion to make a difference in the world. And that difference can be just making the fans at my show leave with a smile on their face and feeling uplifted.

  Michael Franti

  Passion, Differences, Feelings

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Music gets us in touch with our emotions in a way that's more intimate than any other art form.

  Michael Franti

  Art, Way, Emotion

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Music is also one of the great heart openers. Sometimes, you hear the lyrics of a song and you dance, laugh, smile, or perhaps even cry.

  Michael Franti

  Song, Heart, Laughing

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• One of the things I love about yoga is that it brings you into the present moment. You aren't worried about what will happen tomorrow and you aren't thinking about what happened yesterday. It's about opening your heart and living from your heart.

  Michael Franti

  Yoga, Heart, Thinking

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Music and yoga have a great synergy.

  Michael Franti

  Yoga, Synergy

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• The main thing is to be myself. What I mean by that is, to be honest when called upon to express your feelings. The other thing is - maybe this should come first - to be a good listener. To close your mouth and to listen, and to be able to echo back what your partner says to you.

  Michael Franti

  Mean, Echoes, Feelings

  "Michael Franti | Rocker. Chart Topper. Humanitarian. Bad Ass. Inspiration". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• It's also hard for me to understand growing up not knowing where I came from. I searched for my parents - I started when I was twenty; I found both my mother and my father when I was twenty-two. Trying to catch up on twenty-two years that we can never get back, trying to reconcile that - that's a hard thing for me.

  Michael Franti

  Mother, Growing Up, Father

  "Michael Franti | Rocker. Chart Topper. Humanitarian. Bad Ass. Inspiration". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I think the main thing I would say is, don't settle. Don't settle for something that's not great.

  Michael Franti

  Thinking, Settling

  "Michael Franti | Rocker. Chart Topper. Humanitarian. Bad Ass. Inspiration". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I was adopted when I was a baby. My mother carried me for nine months and she held me for one hour, and didn't see me again.

  Michael Franti

  Mother, Baby, Nine

  "Michael Franti | Rocker. Chart Topper. Humanitarian. Bad Ass. Inspiration". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Whenever people go out of their way to help other people - there's power and beauty in our diversity.

  Michael Franti

  Helping Others, People, Diversity

  "Michael Franti | Rocker. Chart Topper. Humanitarian. Bad Ass. Inspiration". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Don't settle for something that's not great. Don't feel like having a relationship that is not serving your needs is more important than having a relationship with yourself.

  Michael Franti

  Important, Needs, Settling

  "Michael Franti | Rocker. Chart Topper. Humanitarian. Bad Ass. Inspiration". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I've been in those relationships. You go through years of your life and at a certain point you wake up and you go, god, what am I doing here? What have I spent the last three years doing? Part of it is learning, this process you've gotta go through. You have to recognize the point at which you're not learning anymore, and be able to let it go.

  Michael Franti

  Years, Let It Go, Three

  "Michael Franti | Rocker. Chart Topper. Humanitarian. Bad Ass. Inspiration". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• My mother and father took me in and provided everything for me - the love, nurturing, basic necessities - to give me the space to grow wings, so that when I went out into the world, I could fly.

  Michael Franti

  Mother, Father, Wings

  "Michael Franti | Rocker. Chart Topper. Humanitarian. Bad Ass. Inspiration". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.