Quotes by Tom Morello

About Tom Morello:

Thomas Morello is an American musician, singer-songwriter and activist. He is best known for his tenure with the band Rage Against the Machine and then with Audioslave. Morello is currently a touring musician with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. He is also known for his acoustic solo act called The Nightwatchman, and his latest group, Street Sweeper Social Club. Morello is also the co-founder (along with Serj Tankian) of the non-profit political activist organization Axis of Justice, which airs a monthly program on Pacifica Radio station KPFK (90.7 FM) in Los Angeles.
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Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there.

Tom Morello

We've been able to have our cake and eat it, too. Every song, every T-shirt, is absolutely a pure expression of what we want to do. And it connects.

Tom Morello

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

I literally integrated the small town of Libertyville, Illinois. I was the first person of color to reside within its borders.

Tom Morello

America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you’ve lost all control over what you do, what is produced...

Tom Morello

A musician's or artist's responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth,

Tom Morello

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

I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago.

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The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family - my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid - to live in the apartment building.

Tom Morello

I came late to the genre of folk music.

Tom Morello

I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.

Tom Morello

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...

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Author Bio

  • NameTom Morello
  • DescriptionAmerican guitarist and singer-songwriter
  • BornMay 30, 1964
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionGuitarist; Singer-songwriter; Musician; Actor; Composer