195 Quotes by Michael Franti

I was adopted when I was a baby. My mother carried me for nine months and she held me for one hour, and didn't see me again.

Traveling to the Middle East and playing music for people on the street, for soldiers, for people in hospitals, and for people who lost their homes, and seeing people open up through the experience of music really restored my faith in music, in art, and in culture to change things.

With all the people hating and hurting each other, I don't understand how people could get upset about people of the same sex caring for each other.

I've been in those relationships. You go through years of your life and at a certain point you wake up and you go, god, what am I doing here? What have I spent the last three years doing? Part of it is learning, this process you've gotta go through. You have to recognize the point at which you're not learning anymore, and be able to let it go.

Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose.

Only a rat can win a rat race.

It ain't about who ya love, it's all about do ya love.

Music was a central part of my childhood because my mother played organ and piano in the church, and that meant all us kids had to be in the church choir.

I think that the transformative nature of love is why we are so drawn to it.