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Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.
Michael Franti
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Michael Franti
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: April 21
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If the first casualty of war is innocence, then perhaps with each bullet fired, bomb detonated, leader overthrown, wall built, economy destroyed and family member killed, we are not creating goodwill and harmony, but rather another child who believes violence is the only means to bring about change in the world.
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I think my soul is intact, but my methods of reaching people are completely different.
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It ain't about who ya love, it's all about do ya love.
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The music industry has been hijacked by corporate interests, but the way music affects people and resonates with them hasn't changed.
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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.
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A lot of times we look at the whole world and think, 'it's so daunting, how can we change the whole world?' and you don't need to do that, what you need to do is change your world a little bit, and see if you can, through example, inspire others to do the same thing.
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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.
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No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.
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The U.S. has historically been the world's largest contributor to climate change.
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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.
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My goal has not ever been to change minds, my goal is to open minds.
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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.
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There are so many things to be worried about, and I wanted to make a record that people could put on, and it would lift them up the way the sun did for me each day.
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Be as radiant as the sun, as healing as the rain, as generous as a tree.
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I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went to the West Bank and Gaza Strip because I wanted to see what three generations of occupation had done to Palestinian society. I found a lot more hopelessness and despair in Palestine.
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Love is the action of soul satisfaction.
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Power to the peaceful!
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I've never really been into flags of any kind, cause flags can bring people together, but they always bring people together against other people, and I don't really consider myself to be a patriot in the sense that I say, 'okay, this is my nation,' I consider myself to be a child of this whole planet.
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I want to promote positivity.
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Life is too short to make just one decision, Music's too loud for just one station, Love is too big for just one nation, AND GOD IS TOO BIG FOR JUST ONE RELIGION...
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