Michael Franti Quotes

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, Then we all kill each other, Cause God told us to? Nah!..

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.

I could be really sad and I start to cry; I feel alive then. I could be at a concert and I throw my hands up in the air and I feel elation; I feel alive then.

I feel alive when I feel ease of heart.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is just to stay human.

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

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

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

Love is the action of soul satisfaction.

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

We don't have to be good, you know? No one's telling us that we have to do good things, but we do them because we know it makes other people feel good and it makes us feel good.

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

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

I think that the transformative nature of love is why we are so drawn to it.

Can't keep Love like money in the bank

I think the main thing I would say is, don't settle. Don't settle for something that's not great.

Music and yoga have a great synergy.

It's that transformative nature of love and music and yoga that really inspires me.

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.

Having personal things in balance is more important than the other.

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

When I first started, my songs were the politics of anger. As I got older and hopefully wiser, I wanted to be part of the politics of answers.

Everybody's opinion is equally valid, and I feel like everybody should have an opportunity to speak out, and everyone should have the courage to speak out.

I'm not an idealist. I know we're not going to be living in a world that's peace and love all the time. But we can live in a world where we kill each other a lot less.

Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood.

You can bomb the world to pieces, but you can't bomb it into peace. Power to the peaceful.