Quotes by Tom Morello

Tom Morello

A good song should make you wanna tap your foot and get with your girl. A great song should destroy cops and set fire to the suburbs. I’m only interested in writing great songs.

Girl

Song

Writing

Amazingly talented singer who sang like an angry angel

Angel

Angry

Singers

America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you’ve lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. And in the end, the product doesn’t belong to you. The only way you can avoid bosses and jobs is if you don’t care about making a living. Which leads to the second freedom: the freedom to starve.

Exercise

Jobs

Land

Bad presidents make for great music, and I’m gonna do my best to provide it.

Great Music

President

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.

Globes

Music Is

Position

Charles Manson loved the Beatles but didn’t understand them. Governor Chris Christie loves Bruce Springsteen but doesn’t understand him. And Paul Ryan is clueless about his favorite band, Rage Against the Machine.

Band

Clueless

Machines

For the millennium [New Year’s Eve], you really have a choice to make. You either have to be naked with your head on fire and a shotgun in Bali or else you have to spend time with friends or family around the fireplace. And I’m choosing option B

Fire

New Year

Years

I didn’t grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago.

Chicago

Conservative

Growing Up

I don’t believe that the Democratic party has anything to do with the Left. We have two political parties in the US: a right wing party and a right centrist party. That’s the Democrats. I laugh when people describe Barack Obama as a socialist president. As a socialist musician, I’ll tell you when we have a socialist president. We don’t have one now, not even close.

Believe

Laughing

Party

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.

People

Records

Struggle

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America

Angel

Angry

Art

Artist

Asking

Band

Believe

Borders

Cancer

Cash

Cds

Challenges

Chicago

Choices

Clueless

Color

Conservative

Cop

Country

Crush

Decision

Demon

Earth

Economic

Economic Power

Exercise

Eye

Father

Fighting

Fire

Funny

Girl

Globes

Government

Great Music

Growing Up

Hands

Hero

Hunger And Poverty

Illinois

Injustice

Jobs

Justice

Kenya

Kids

Killers

Land

Laughing

Machines

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Quotes by Tom Morello

Tom Morello

A good song should make you wanna tap your foot and get with your girl. A great song should destroy cops and set fire to the suburbs. I’m only interested in writing great songs.

Amazingly talented singer who sang like an angry angel

Bad presidents make for great music, and I’m gonna do my best to provide it.

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.

Charles Manson loved the Beatles but didn’t understand them. Governor Chris Christie loves Bruce Springsteen but doesn’t understand him. And Paul Ryan is clueless about his favorite band, Rage Against the Machine.

For the millennium [New Year’s Eve], you really have a choice to make. You either have to be naked with your head on fire and a shotgun in Bali or else you have to spend time with friends or family around the fireplace. And I’m choosing option B

I didn’t grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago.

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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