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Tom Morello
American
Musician
Born:
May 30
,
1964
Family
First
Great
Guitar
Music
You
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Racism is a problem, economic inequality is a problem, not enough rock n' roll on the radio is a problem. But all those problems will become insignificant when the oceans rise in a way that threatens organised human activity.
Tom Morello
Racism
Problem
Problems
Will
Become
Enough
Way
Those
Threatens
Insignificant
Rise
Economic
Inequality
Rock
Oceans
Rock-N-Roll
Roll
Human
Human Activity
Organised
Radio
Activity
The system under which we live is owned and operated by people who do not deserve to run the world.
Tom Morello
People
World
Live
System
Run
Operated
Owned
Which
Who
Deserve
My music is - there's no litmus test, there's no political litmus test for listening to it - but I am never going to compromise one iota to satisfy with someone who's uncomfortable with the ideas I feel in my heart.
Tom Morello
Music
Heart
Political
Listening
Someone
Compromise
Uncomfortable
Never
Feel
Ideas
Iota
Am
Test
Going
Litmus
Litmus Test
Satisfy
Progressive, radical, or even revolutionary change has always come from below.
Tom Morello
Change
Radical
Progressive
Come
Always
Revolutionary
Even
Below
I came late to the genre of folk music.
Tom Morello
Music
Late
Folk
Folk Music
Genre
Came
I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.
Tom Morello
Music
Punk
First
Hop
Metal
Hip
Hip-Hop
Heavy
Fan
Then
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 be as heavy as anything that comes through a Marshall stack. The combination of three chords and the right lyrical couplet can be as heavy as anything in the Metallica catalogue.
Tom Morello
Music
Me
Three
Lyrical
Folk
Folk Music
Marshall
About
Guthrie
Cash
Johnny
Johnny Cash
Could
Through
Dawned
Catalogue
Combination
Metallica
Years
Years Ago
Stack
Heavy
Anything
Dylan
Woody
Woody Guthrie
Bob
Bob Dylan
Then
Pete Seeger
Chords
Right
Early
Phil
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 grotesque disparity between the rich and poor that is only getting wider.
Tom Morello
Rich
Other
Corporate
Way
Super
Super Bowl
Only
Between
Likes
Bowl
America
Getting
Poor
Grotesque
Disparity
Whole
Each
Media
Portray
Wider
My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anti-colonial movement.
Tom Morello
Family
Father
Parents
Met
Side
Involved
Movement
African
Kenya
'Underrated.' That is the word that best describes Prince, the Guitarist. Why? Because his phenomenal guitar-playing was just one arrow in a quiver full of remarkable talents.
Tom Morello
Best
Word
Guitarist
Remarkable
Prince
Talents
Because
Underrated
His
Arrow
Just
Just One
Full
Why
Phenomenal
There are many pop stars who are great performers - but there is no chart-topping pop star in history who could play guitar like Prince.
Tom Morello
Great
History
Guitar
Stars
Could
Performers
Like
Prince
Pop
Pop Star
Pop Stars
Who
Many
Star
Play
I saw 'Purple Rain' in the summer of '84, and, 'Spinal Tap' notwithstanding, it's the greatest rock & roll film of all time. There's so much Prince coming at you that you have to remind yourself he's also a breathtaking guitar player.
Tom Morello
Time
You
Rain
Yourself
Guitar
Summer
Saw
Guitar Player
Spinal
Spinal Tap
All-Time
Purple
He
Remind
Prince
Also
Greatest
Rock
Coming
Tap
Roll
Breathtaking
Much
Notwithstanding
Film
Player
'Purple Rain,' the album, is a great guitar record.
Tom Morello
Great
Rain
Guitar
Record
Purple
Album
I am not a superstitious person.
Tom Morello
Superstitious
Am
Person
I've played hundreds of protests. I've marched on dozens of picket lines. I've strummed my guitar at innumerable demonstrations.
Tom Morello
Guitar
Hundreds
Picket
Protests
Demonstrations
Lines
Dozens
Played
I think that there are artists of different genres whose calling is to use their art to hope to affect and better the human condition - whether it's System of a Down, or Rage Against the Machine, or Public Enemy, or the Clash, Bruce Springsteen, or Pete Seeger. It's a group that I'm proud to be counted among.
Tom Morello
Hope
Art
Enemy
Better
Down
Group
Rage
Think
Machine
System
Clash
Bruce
Bruce Springsteen
Counted
Genres
Calling
Proud
Springsteen
Affect
Condition
Human
Artists
Different
Human Condition
Whether
Against
Public
Different Genres
Use
Pete Seeger
Whose
Among
The one thing that Hendrix had that is unique among extraordinary guitar players is he had songs that were on the radio. His guitar genius was exposed to the masses by 'Foxy Lady.'
Tom Morello
Genius
Guitar
Extraordinary
Guitar Players
One Thing
Had
Songs
He
Masses
Were
His
Lady
The One Thing
Radio
Exposed
Unique
Hendrix
Among
Thing
Players
I named my son after Randy Rhoads - Rhoads Morello.
Tom Morello
Son
Randy
Named
After
I grew up on misogynist, devil-worshipping heavy metal music, and then it was groups like The Clash and Public Enemy that reminded me that there were a different set of ideas that could be expressed with great music.
Tom Morello
Music
Great
Heavy Metal
Me
Enemy
Clash
Great Music
Could
Reminded
Like
Ideas
Metal
Were
Up
Different
Heavy
Grew
Public
Then
Groups
Expressed
Set
With guitar, I'd always mixed more sounds that occur in hip-hop, or occur on Crystal Method records, or occur at the zoo - so I've never been sort of tethered or have limited myself to the traditional rock n' roll vocabulary.
Tom Morello
Myself
Guitar
Vocabulary
More
Records
Never
Crystal
Sort
Limited
Rock
Always
Occur
Hip-Hop
Sounds
Method
Rock-N-Roll
Traditional
Mixed
Been
Roll
Zoo
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