"Message songs are a drag!"
- Bob Dylan, datebook magazine 1966
“Elektra is not the tool of anyone's revolution. We feel that the revolution will be won by poetics and not by politics - that poetics will change the structure of the world."
- Jac Holzman of Elektra Records, in Rolling Stone 1969
"The act of being in a band and strapping on an electric guitar is a political action"
- Jon Spencer, The Quietus, 2025
