I drive a hybrid. It's a Ford Escape. That's my only car. Michael Franti More Quotes by Michael Franti More Quotes From Michael Franti I always know when a song is good or close to finished. When I sing it, it makes me feel the emotion. My tears will start flowing or I'll start laughing. I'll start feeling whatever intensity or emotion was the seed of that song. Michael Franti feelings song laughing One of the things I love about yoga is that it brings you into the present moment. You aren't worried about what will happen tomorrow and you aren't thinking about what happened yesterday. It's about opening your heart and living from your heart. Michael Franti yoga heart thinking It's that transformative nature of love and music and yoga that really inspires me. Michael Franti music-and-love yoga inspire I have a passion to make a difference in the world. And that difference can be just making the fans at my show leave with a smile on their face and feeling uplifted. Michael Franti passion differences feelings There's sometimes when I feel really balanced, and there's other times when I feel like I'm trying to keep juggling too many balls in the air, and I feel like I'm on the edge of dropping all of them and having them all land on my head, you know? Scheduling is a big part of it, and the other is just remaining flexible and keeping a sense of humor about things. Michael Franti land air trying Having personal things in balance is more important than the other. Michael Franti personal-things balance important It's also hard for me to understand growing up not knowing where I came from. I searched for my parents - I started when I was twenty; I found both my mother and my father when I was twenty-two. Trying to catch up on twenty-two years that we can never get back, trying to reconcile that - that's a hard thing for me. Michael Franti growing-up mother father I've always wanted to be a communicator of ideas through music. Today, I wanna be the most effective musical communicator of social change I could be, so I try to find different ways to do it and I'm always challenging myself to find new things, learn new instruments. But I always try to find in my heart, what it is I really want to say with words. Michael Franti challenges heart ideas I think right now is when we need to hear different voices coming out of all parts of the world. You can't just hear the politicians and the military leaders. You have to hear from the taxi drivers. You have to hear from the painters. You have to hear from the poets. You have to hear from the school teachers and the filmmakers and musicians. Michael Franti military teacher school Love is the action of soul satisfaction. Michael Franti satisfaction soul love-is I could be really sad and I start to cry; I feel alive then. I could be at a concert and I throw my hands up in the air and I feel elation; I feel alive then. Michael Franti alive air hands I feel alive when I feel ease of heart. Michael Franti alive ease heart 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 song war thinking 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 jamaica tourists bob Today we are in a war against war - music is our power. Michael Franti music-is today war There are so many things to be worried about, and I wanted to make a record that people could put on, and it would lift them up the way the sun did for me each day. Michael Franti records each-day people Can't keep Love like money in the bank Michael Franti Every single soul is a poem, written on the back of God's hand Michael Franti written soul hands Through music I either tame my demons or unleash them and allow them to be what they are. I don't want the music to be about provocation, I want the music to bring you to a place where you feel at home Michael Franti music want home 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 resilience climate people
