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I literally integrated the small town of Libertyville, Illinois. I was the first person of color to reside within its borders.
Tom Morello
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Tom Morello
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: May 30
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Thomas Baptist Morello
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A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.
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When real substantive change happens it's the people who watch your show, they're the ones that make it happen. It's people whose names are not highlighted in history books. They're the ones that stand up in their place and time to make change.
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Bad presidents make for great music, and I'm gonna do my best to provide it.
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The skin you're in makes choices for you...
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I'd say that one area where my political views have remained unchanged is that, I am opposed to the government spying on everybody.
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I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.
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I myself am a very, very peaceful person. Throughout our history, from our own American revolution to the resistance against apartheid in South Africa, to labor strikes in the US, people have resorted to violence to achieve a more progressive society, from time to time.
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Bashing the elite is what I'm all about in my music because they absolutely don't deserve the privileged position that they're in, and we're seeing this around the globe right now.
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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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We have power not just with our voices, but we have economic power in what we do for a living, too.
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I feel fortunate to have made records during an era where people actually bought music. But I have friends in struggling up-and-coming bands now that will certainly never be able to pay the rent, because music has been devalued.
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I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago.
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I don't want to leave this mess around my children to clean up. I want to swing absolutely as hard as I can to straighten things out before they get to the age where it starts hurting them.
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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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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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If aliens came down and challenged us to a Battle of the Bands to decide the fate of Planet Earth, I would feel very confident putting early Van Halen forward as our champion.
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Always question the authority.
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