Michael Franti Change Quotations

Traveling to the Middle East and playing music for people on the street, for soldiers, for people in hospitals, and for people who lost their homes, and seeing people open up through the experience of music really restored my faith in music, in art, and in culture to change things.

I think that fear comes about when there's things in the world that we want to change, things we're scared or angry about, and we can't change them, and so we become fearful; we develop anxiety.

Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood.

We would play songs live on stage, and then we'd watch their reaction we were receiving immediately, if people were dancing and singing along. If they weren't, then we'd go into the dressing rooms of the different NBA teams that we were playing in their arenas, and we'd change the songs right there.

The world can't have a global solution to climate change with U.S. action alone; and the world can't have a global solution without U.S. action.

The U.S. has historically been the world's largest contributor to climate change.

I don't know if it's so grand that I can change the entire world, but I know that I can help one person. So that's the goal.