Michael Franti Quotes - Page 3

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• 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.

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• 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

  Song, War, Thinking

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• It was hard for me, as a father, to imagine going through what my birth mom went through, to raise a child inside of her for nine months, and then have to say goodbye. And so it's hard for me to understand that pain and that process.

  Michael Franti

  Mom, Goodbye, Children

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

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• 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.

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• No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.

  Michael Franti

  Brother, Brother Sister

  Song: Crazy, Crazy, Crazy, Album: Everyone Deserves Music, 2003

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• 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.

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• Only a rat can win a rat race.

  Michael Franti

  Winning, Race, Rats

  Song: Sometimes

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• 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.

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• If you love the planet or the neighborhood - you're finding ways to satisfy the soul of the planet or satisfy the soul of the neighborhood.

  Michael Franti

  Soul, Way, Planets

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

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• 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

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• I'm a news junkie who's constantly reading newspapers and magazines. I look around and see what's happening in the world.

  Michael Franti

  Reading, Looks, News

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• 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

  "Time for Passion and Strategy on Climate Change" by Michael Franti, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2009.

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

  Michael Franti

  Found

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• 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.

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• Music and yoga have a great synergy.

  Michael Franti

  Yoga, Synergy

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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

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

  Michael Franti

  Yoga, Inspire, Music And Love

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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

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

  Michael Franti

  Balance, Important, Personal Things

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When I first started out, I thought it was enough to make an angry song that pointed out the problems of the world.

  Michael Franti

  Song, World, Firsts

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• You say you're a Christian, Cause God made you, You say you're a Muslim, Cause God made you, You say you're a Hindu and the next man a Jew, Then we all kill each other, Cause God told us to? Nah!..

  Michael Franti

  Christian, Men, Next

  "Song: Hello Bonjour (Yell Fire!)". July 25, 2006.

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• 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

  People, Justice, Musical

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