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10 quotes by Tom Morello

Thomas Baptiste Morello (born May 30, 1964) is an American guitarist and activist. He is best known for his tenure with the band Rage Against the Machine and then with Audioslave. Morello is currently a touring musician with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. He is also known for his acoustic solo act called The Nightwatchman, and his latest group Street Sweeper Social Club. Morello is also the co-founder (along with Serj Tankian) of the...
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Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there.

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The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five's each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have is a... →

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The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family - my mom is... →

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Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger - could... →

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We've been able to have our cake and eat it, too. Every song, every T-shirt, is absolutely a pure expression of what we want to do. And it... →

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I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.

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My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anti-colonial movement.

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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.

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I came late to the genre of folk music.

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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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