Michael Franti famous quotes

Don't let mistakes be so monumental, don't let your love be so confidential, don't let your mind be so darn judgemental, and please let your heart be more influential. Be thankful for all that the spirit provides and be thankful for all that you see without eyes.
-- Michael Franti

#Mistake #Heart #Eye

All the freaky people make the beauty of the world.
-- Michael Franti

#People #World #Freak

We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.
-- Michael Franti

#Peace #Pieces #World

You learn a lot when you're barefoot. The first thing is every step you take is different.
-- Michael Franti

#Firsts #Steps #Different

God is too big for just one religion.
-- Michael Franti

#Bigs

Every single soul is a poem.
-- Michael Franti

#Poetry #Soul #Single Relationship

Life is too short to make just one decision, music is too loud for just one station, love is too big for just one nation, and God is too big for just one religion!
-- Michael Franti

#Life Is Too Short #Love Is #Decision

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.
-- Michael Franti

#Thinking #Inspire #Needs

Bonnaroo has kind of become the granddaddy of all American festivals. The thing I love about it most is that it wasn't born out of picking the top ten bands off the Billboard chart and creating a festival around it.
-- Michael Franti

#Creating #Festivals #Band

When many little people in many little places do many little things, then the whole world changes.
-- Michael Franti

#People #World #Littles

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.
-- Michael Franti

#Children #Wall #War

I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.
-- Michael Franti

#Night #World #Helping

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.
-- Michael Franti

#People #Empowering #Community

Everyone deserves music.
-- Michael Franti

#Deserve

Don't fear the nighttime, cause the monsters know that you're divine. Don't fear the sunshine, cause everything's better in the summertime
-- Michael Franti

#Sunshine #Summertime #Monsters

Television, the drug of the nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation...
-- Michael Franti

#Ignorance #Drug #Television

The music industry has been hijacked by corporate interests, but the way music affects people and resonates with them hasn't changed.
-- Michael Franti

#People #Way #Changed

Many kids in foster homes have a lot of emotions that are hard to get out. It's important to let them know they can make a difference in the community.
-- Michael Franti

#Kids #Home #Differences

Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.
-- Michael Franti

#Art #People #Together

It's never too late to start the day over.
-- Michael Franti

#Too Late #Start The Day

Johnny Cash was a rebel, not only just in the musical sense, but he was somebody who was for the people, and an advocate for labor, for workers, for prisoners, people who have been trapped by the criminal justice system.
-- Michael Franti

#Justice #People #Musical

I went to the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship. I didn't study in high school. I was just there to get by and to play basketball. But a funny thing happened to me when I got to college. I got challenged by the work and the professors.
-- Michael Franti

#Basketball #School #College

The human interest, and the natural interest, and the spiritual interest of this planet need to begin to take a priority over the corporate interest, the military interest, and the materialistic interests.
-- Michael Franti

#Spiritual #Military #Priorities

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.
-- Michael Franti

#Years #Iraq #Despair

The corporate media is there to push the agenda of the sponsors, and many of those sponsors are weapons manufacturers. So it stands to reason that you won't get a diversity of opinions on television.
-- Michael Franti

#Media #Diversity #Agendas

San Francisco has always been a haven for misfits and weirdos. I'm both of those, which is why I came here.
-- Michael Franti

#San Francisco #Misfits #Weirdo

Star Wars is mythology. Its like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. Its the story of good versus evil over a very long span of time. The storytelling is universal and timeless.
-- Michael Franti

#Stars #War #Long

Through music I either tame my demons or unleash them and allow them to be what they are. I don't want the music to be about provocation, I want the music to bring you to a place where you feel at home
-- Michael Franti

#Music #Home #Want

When you're in Jamaica, unless you're in a tourist spot, you don't hear Bob Marley; you mostly hear dance hall music.
-- Michael Franti

#Jamaica #Bob #Tourists

Every single soul is a poem, written on the back of God's hand
-- Michael Franti

#Hands #Soul

I'm a news junkie who's constantly reading newspapers and magazines. I look around and see what's happening in the world.
-- Michael Franti

#Reading #News #Magazines

It doesnt matter if youre black, white, gay, straight, come from different countries, different language... every single person is significant and is meaningful.
-- Michael Franti

#Meaningful #Country #Gay

No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.
-- Michael Franti

#Brother #Brother Sister

Power to the peaceful!
-- Michael Franti

#Peace #Peaceful

Music is sunshine. Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood. Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose.
-- Michael Franti

#Powerful #Sunshine #Giving

I drive a hybrid. It's a Ford Escape. That's my only car.
-- Michael Franti

#Car #Hybrid

My goal has not ever been to change minds, my goal is to open minds.
-- Michael Franti

#Goal #Mind #Open Mind

The personal revolution is far more difficult, and is the first step in any revolution.
-- Michael Franti

#Firsts #Revolution #Steps

Every bit of land is a Holy land, and every drop of water is Holy water, and every single child is a son or a daughter of the one Earth mama, and the one Earth papa.
-- Michael Franti

#Daughter #Children #Son

Those who start wars never fight them, and those who fight wars never like them.
-- Michael Franti

#War #Fighting #Start Wars

You say you're a Christian, cause God made you, you say you're a Muslim cause God made you, you say you're a Hindu and the next man a Jew, but then we all kill each other cause God told us to? Naw!
-- Michael Franti

#Christian #Men #Next

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.
-- Michael Franti

#Children #People #Together

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

#Climate #World #Climate Change

People ask me a lot, 'what can one person do,' and I say 'I'm not really sure what one person can due except come together with other people.
-- Michael Franti

#People #Together #Ask Me

Be who you are, nothing more... nothing less.
-- Michael Franti

#Be Who You Are #Who You Are

It shouldn't be a Republican or Democratic issue whether we take care of the environment. That should be a human issue.
-- Michael Franti

#Issues #Care #Republican

Investing now in safe-guarding people by helping them to adapt to climate change, will help save money and lives while building resilience.
-- Michael Franti

#People #Resilience #Investing

When I first started out, I thought it was enough to make an angry song that pointed out the problems of the world.
-- Michael Franti

#Song #World #Firsts

Be who you are nothing more nothing less, and let the beauty that you love be the very best. Sing praises to the highest with your feet on the ground, and reach for your brother with the words that you sound, and don't let mistakes be so monumental, and don't let your love be so confidential, and don't let your mind be so darn judgmental, and please let your heart be more influential. Be thankful for all the Spirit provides, And be thankful for all that you can see without eyes, Give thanks to music that keeps us alive, And give thanks to all DJs worldwide.
-- Michael Franti

#Brother #Mistake #Heart

If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems.
-- Michael Franti

#Land #Water #Negative

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.
-- Michael Franti

#People #Records #Each Day

It ain't about who ya love, it's all about do ya love.
-- Michael Franti

During my travels in Iraq, Israel, Gaza, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Europe and all over the United States, I have seen and heard the voices of people who want change. They want the stabilization of the economy, education and healthcare for all, renewable energy and an environmental vision with an eye on generations to come.
-- Michael Franti

#Eye #Israel #Japan

I think my soul is intact, but my methods of reaching people are completely different.
-- Michael Franti

#Thinking #People #Soul

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is just to stay human.
-- Michael Franti

#Sometimes #Hardest #Humans

My parents said sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you. But I always felt a sense of exhilaration after a fight; it was the names that really hurt me.
-- Michael Franti

#Hurt #Fighting #Names

Sometimes, I feel like I can do anything, and, sometimes, I'm so alive, sometimes, I feel like I could zoom across the sky and, sometimes, I wanna cry.
-- Michael Franti

#Sky #Alive #Zoom

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.
-- Michael Franti

#Song #War #Thinking

When we all see justice, then we'll all see peace!
-- Michael Franti

#Justice

Today we are in a war against war - music is our power.
-- Michael Franti

#War #Today #Music Is

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.
-- Michael Franti

#World #Climate #Action

Can't keep Love like money in the bank
-- Michael Franti