American - Musician | April 1, 1971 -
A lot of us don't get a sense of our personal power. I know the vast difference that one person can make in changing things.
Boots Riley
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Capitalism and people who control the market have a large hand in everything. It doesn't have anything to do with figuring out what the crowd wants to hear. It has to do with the media deciding what they think people want to hear.
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A lot of organizers tell me that while they are making signs or doing whatever they do, they are listening to the Coup.
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I just make music based on what I believe.
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The goal with a show is to push forward the passion in a visual and sonic way. It all comes out in a trance-like way, fast and pulsating. Then people can go home and think about the lyrics later.
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Rarely, someone comes around that is influenced by so many things but is looking for a new way to do something.
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If people come to a record store, and they can't find your album, they buy something else.
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I'm not a classically trained composer, and I can't sing very well.
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If I want to get my ideas out, I have to be involved in the mechanism that the world is ran by.
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The Coup does not support the American flag.
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Until we can democratically control the wealth that is created from our labor, there isn't real democracy.
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The Obama campaign decimated the newly regenerated anti-war movement in 2008. And he definitely isn't anti-war.
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