Henry Rollins: “Is music a viable force for change?”
Henry Rollins dished on the power and limitations of music in his Big Think interview:
“Is music a viable force for change? Can music stop things, start things, change things? To a certain degree yes, maybe in pop culture, but if a song or an artist could stop a war Bob Dylan and Bob Marley would have.”
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Two years ago, former Black Flag frontman Henry Rollins dished on the power and limitations of music in his Big Think interview:
“Is music a viable force for change? Can music stop things, start things, change things? To a certain degree yes, maybe in pop culture, but if a song or an artist could stop a war Bob Dylan and Bob Marley would have.”
You can watch the clip below, in which Rollins explains that it takes a lot more than one artist to spark a revolution:
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