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" 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. "

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" Jamaica's a country of great dichotomy. On the one hand you have a tourist industry with great beaches and resorts, but on the other you have such great poverty and the violence that goes along with that. "

Michael Franti

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" I have a desire that I want to make people feel happy through my music. I'm always trying to find optimistic ways to express myself. "

" All the freaky people make the beauty of the world. "

" Not all artists have a responsibility to be socially or politically aware, but they do have a responsibility to make great art. They have to find some truth and put that in their music. "

" 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

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" I'd play music on the street, especially in developing nations where a lot of kids couldn't wear shoes. In order to relate with kids that would be following me barefoot, I would take off my shoes, and they would all laugh at me because I couldn't go three steps without wincing. "

Michael Franti

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" I drive a hybrid. It's a Ford Escape. That's my only car. "

" My usual day is I get up around 11 o'clock and do yoga and then eat afterwards. Then I have sound check and play soccer and do running with the guys in the band after sound check, and then do the show and eat dinner after the show and usually get to bed around 3 o'clock by the time we get everybody on the bus and get rolling. "

" After a show, I'll get the 16-year-old white kid whose lip is pierced, his head is shaved and his parents hate him, and the young gangster from the screwed-up 'hood, and they say that now they realize there's someone out there who thinks like they do. "

" It doesn't matter if you're black, white, gay, straight, come from different countries, different language... every single person is significant and is meaningful. "

" No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother. "

" 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. "

" The rap community has been singled out as more homophobic than other groups, but I don't think that's right. It's homophobic, all right, but no more so than the heavy-metal community or the Hollywood community or any other community. "

Michael Franti

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" I don't know if it's so grand that I can change the entire world, but I know that I can help one person. So that's the goal. "

" The more places I go to, the more I realize I understand so little about the world. "

" I'm always trying to find optimistic ways to express myself. "

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

" It really is a strange time we're living in, when saying 'Don't kill people' is considered a radical point of view. "

" To sit back and say, 'Oh, we're going to let the government do whatever they want, right or wrong,' is giving up. "

" In Jamaica, the music is recorded for the sound system, not the iPod. It's about experiencing music together, with other people. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" My music is part of the quest I have to find new ways of telling stories, and also, I want to inspire people. "

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

" 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. "

" Power to the peaceful! "