Comments on: 5 Songs with which to Spark a Revolution http://headfullofsnow.com/5-songs-spark-revolution/ Fri, 11 May 2012 08:52:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Jeff http://headfullofsnow.com/5-songs-spark-revolution/comment-page-1/#comment-1207 Jeff Tue, 03 Aug 2010 04:46:12 +0000 http://headfullofsnow.com/?p=703#comment-1207 About Joan Baez: "Settles for" isn't quite right. You need to have the "revolution" of the head and the heart first, or else nothing else makes much difference. (John Adams--the 2nd President of the U.S., not the composer--apparently said much the same thing in a letter from around 1820, speaking of the American Revolution.) After all, if your revolutionary movement isn't strong enough to win *without* force of arms, there's not much meaning in winning. About Joan Baez: “Settles for” isn’t quite right. You need to have the “revolution” of the head and the heart first, or else nothing else makes much difference. (John Adams–the 2nd President of the U.S., not the composer–apparently said much the same thing in a letter from around 1820, speaking of the American Revolution.)

After all, if your revolutionary movement isn’t strong enough to win *without* force of arms, there’s not much meaning in winning.

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