Quotes about Protest Songs

 
One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.
—Phil Ochs, in Broadside magazine (1962)
 
 
A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit.
—Phil Ochs, in the liner notes for The Broadside Tapes 1
 
 

Satan: Beyond these doors is an agony worse than all others... you will remain in here for eternity listening to... [opens door] WHINY PROTEST SONGS FROM THE SIXTIES!
Singer: Oh I hate the government
More than you hate me
The government took my goldfish
And unplugged my TV

Warners: [Scream]
Animaniacs, "Hot, Bothered and Bedeviled"
 

Quotes from Protest Songs

 
"We got to fight the Powers That Be!"
Public Enemy, "Fight The Power"
 

 

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