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Michael Franti
American
Musician
Born:
Apr 21
,
1967
Change
Me
Music
People
World
You
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No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.
Michael Franti
Life
Worth
Sister
Other
Brother
More
Than
Any
Less
Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood.
Michael Franti
Music
Change
Sunshine
Mood
Entire
Instantly
Almost
Powerful
Powerful Force
Like
Force
Your
Music is sunshine. Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood. Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose.
Michael Franti
Music
Change
Sunshine
Stronger
Sense
Energy
Mood
Entire
Gives
Purpose
Instantly
Almost
Powerful
Powerful Force
New
Like
Force
Us
Your
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.
Michael Franti
Gay
You
Matter
Language
Black
Single
White
Every
Significant
Countries
Come
Single Person
Person
Different
Different Countries
Straight
Different Language
Meaningful
During my travels in Iraq, Israel, Gaza, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Europe and all over the United States, I have seen and heard the voices of people who want change. They want the stabilization of the economy, education and healthcare for all, renewable energy and an environmental vision with an eye on generations to come.
Michael Franti
Environmental
Education
Change
People
Vision
Seen
Brazil
Energy
Gaza
States
Eye
Voices
Generations
Indonesia
Over
Come
Economy
Renewable
Renewable Energy
Healthcare
Israel
Heard
Iraq
Want
Japan
Who
Europe
United
United States
Travels
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.
Michael Franti
Three
Year
Society
Despair
Gaza
Strip
Hopelessness
See
More
Had
Generations
Occupation
Because
West
West Bank
Iraq
Lot
Iraqi
Done
Bank
Wanted
Found
Palestine
Palestinian
I've always found that the poorer the places that I go, the more smiles I see, and the more happiness I see.
Michael Franti
Happiness
See
More
Smiles
Always
Go
Places
Poorer
Found
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.
Michael Franti
Love
Become
Top
Top Ten
Out
Kind
All-American
Born
About
Ten
Chart
Picking
Most
Around
Off
Festival
Festivals
Bands
American
Granddaddy
Creating
Billboard
Thing
Every single soul is a poem.
Michael Franti
Soul
Single
Every
Poem
Poetry
Single Soul
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
Work
Funny
Me
School
College
Funny Thing
Francisco
High
Athletic
High School
Scholarship
Study
Got
Get
Just
Happened
San
San Francisco
Challenged
Play
Professors
Play Basketball
Thing
Basketball
University
The U.S. has historically been the world's largest contributor to climate change.
Michael Franti
Change
World
Climate
Climate Change
Been
Historically
Contributor
Largest
I really believe that, as an artist, my opportunity to help to bring about awakening is one that should come from a personal process that someone has, and not from me telling somebody that this is the way it is.
Michael Franti
Me
Opportunity
Somebody
Believe
Way
Telling
About
Someone
Come
Personal
Artist
Process
Really
Should
Help
Awakening
Bring
I eat bags and bags of cashews. I've got them in the kitchen, and about ten feet away I've got another bowl on the kitchen table. In my backpack, I've always got a bag of cashews. I started eating them in the airports because that's the one food that you can find in every airport that's actually nutritious.
Michael Franti
Food
You
Every
Backpack
Airport
Find
Table
Eat
Eating
About
Ten
Kitchen
Kitchen Table
Bag
Bags
Feet
Bowl
Another
Because
Always
Got
Them
Away
Actually
Started
Today we are in a war against war - music is our power.
Michael Franti
Today
War
Music
Power
Our
Against
My parents said sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you. But I always felt a sense of exhilaration after a fight; it was the names that really hurt me.
Michael Franti
Me
You
Fight
Hurt
Will
Parents
Sense
Never
Names
Felt
Sticks
Said
Always
Exhilaration
Stones
After
Break
Really
Your
Bones
When I first started out, I thought it was enough to make an angry song that pointed out the problems of the world.
Michael Franti
Angry
Song
World
Problems
Thought
First
Enough
Out
Pointed
Make
Started
Playing on the streets of Iraq, or in Israel or the Gaza strip, I'd sing angry protest songs against war. People would say, 'Make us clap, make us dance, and laugh and sing.' It really made me think about the importance of happy music.
Michael Franti
War
Music
Angry
Me
Happy
People
Dance
Made
Think
Gaza
Say
Strip
Laugh
Clap
Would
About
Songs
Importance
Sing
Make
Protest
Israel
Iraq
Against
Happy Music
Us
Really
Streets
Playing
Investing now in safe-guarding people by helping them to adapt to climate change, will help save money and lives while building resilience.
Michael Franti
Change
People
Money
Will
Building
Investing
Climate
Climate Change
While
Them
Help
Helping
Now
Lives
Resilience
Adapt
Save
When you're in Jamaica, unless you're in a tourist spot, you don't hear Bob Marley; you mostly hear dance hall music.
Michael Franti
Music
You
Dance
Unless
Marley
Tourist
Mostly
Hall
Spot
Hear
Jamaica
Bob
Bob Marley
To sit back and say, 'Oh, we're going to let the government do whatever they want, right or wrong,' is giving up.
Michael Franti
Government
Giving
Giving Up
Sit
Whatever
Back
Say
Wrong
Up
Going
Oh
Want
Right
In the '80s, Ronald Reagan inspired me to become politicized, because I grew up in that era when everything I cared about was under attack.
Michael Franti
Me
Become
Everything
About
Attack
Inspired
Because
Reagan
Era
Up
Grew
Ronald Reagan
Cared
The music industry has been hijacked by corporate interests, but the way music affects people and resonates with them hasn't changed.
Michael Franti
Music
People
Changed
Resonates
Music Industry
Corporate
Corporate Interests
Way
Has-Been
Hijacked
Industry
Been
Affects
Them
Interests
My mother birthed three children and she adopted myself and another African-American son. My adoptive parents were Finnish. I grew up in a white picket neighborhood.
Michael Franti
Myself
Son
Mother
Three
Parents
White
Neighborhood
Adopted
Finnish
Picket
She
Another
Were
Up
Children
African-American
Grew
I'm always trying to find optimistic ways to express myself.
Michael Franti
Myself
Ways
Find
Always
Optimistic
Trying
Express
I drive a hybrid. It's a Ford Escape. That's my only car.
Michael Franti
Car
Drive
Hybrid
Only
Ford
Escape
I'm a news junkie who's constantly reading newspapers and magazines. I look around and see what's happening in the world.
Michael Franti
News
World
Reading
Constantly
See
Magazines
Look
Around
Happening
Newspapers
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