When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of advocacy and taking a stand for civil rights.
In this quote, Bruce Hornsby expresses his intention behind writing 'The Way It Is' β to inspire listeners to engage with and advocate for civil rights issues. He highlights the power of music as a tool for social change and the responsibility of artists to influence society positively.
In practice
In a speech on civil rights progress, one might quote this to emphasize the role of artists in social movements.
Dreams have consequences. There is no turning back. A revolution is not a painless march to the gates of freedom and justice. It is a struggle between rage and hope, between the temptation to destroy and the desire to build. Its temperament is desperate. It is a tormented response to the past, to all that has happened, the recalled and unrecalled injustices - for the memory of a revolution reaches much further back than the memory of its protagonists.
It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.
I don't reinvent myself in any major way. It seems to be a slow evolution. I go back and visit certain themes that I feel strongly about and resonate with me emotionally.
I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived. Scarcely anything material or established which I was brought up to believe was permanent and vital, has lasted. Everything I was sure or taught to be sure was impossible, has happened.
Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
For over half a century the automobile has brought death, injury, and the most inestimable sorrow and deprivation to millions of people.
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