Quotes by Arlo Guthrie

About Arlo Guthrie:

Arlo Davy Guthrie is an American folk singer. Like his father, Woody Guthrie, Arlo is known for singing songs of protest against social injustice. Guthrie's best-known work is "Alice's Restaurant Massacree", a satirical talking blues song about 18 minutes in length. His song "Massachusetts" was named the official folk song of the state in which he has lived most of his adult life.
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You get people talking about being worried about their art, and dances... their culture being wiped out or taken over, and yet these same people are taking advantage of their people to use them as cheap labour.

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At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war movement was happening, the ban the bomb movement was happening, the environmental movement was happening. There was suddenly a generation ready to ch...

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Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.

Arlo Guthrie

Along with a sense of humor, my songs have to be sincere, and they have to be sung from a position of inner conviction.

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I've written quite a variety of songs, everything from kids songs to political satire, and my dad covered a fairly large range, also.

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My mother had introduced me to a lot of my father's friends because she believed that I would get to know the guy my dad was better through his friends than just in the hospital visits.

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My dad's songs were really written to make certain people feel as though they had some kind of value. Because they were told from where they work and from the countries they had immigrated from that they did not.

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

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If you do anything for 40 years, you can do it comfortably. And it will always be good. But unless you're willing to risk it being bad, it can never be great.

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My only description for me is that there's no throwaway people. That's the creed that I live by. It doesn't matter if I'm singing or not. That's the kind of person that my father and mother wanted me to be. The end obligation is to make people feel g...

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There's only one God. Call him whatever you want.

Arlo Guthrie

Thank God that the people that run this world are not smart enough to keep running it forever. You know, everybody gets a handle on it for a little while.

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I left the entertainment industry part of my life behind in 1983, when we decided not to work with major record companies anymore.

Arlo Guthrie

Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own music. That trailed into making your own pop music, and that's why garage bands started springing up everywhere.

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With the advent of radio and recording, music became an industry rather than just a tradition.

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Music is a nice friend to have around, whether it is just for yourself or for other people. If you can enjoy it, being professional is almost secondary.

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You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

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I don't want a pickle, just want to ride on my motorsickle.

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But think of the last guy. For one minute, think of the last guy. Nobody's got it worse than that guy. Nobody in the whole world.

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I'd rather have friends who care than friends who agree with me.

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Author Bio

  • NameArlo Guthrie
  • DescriptionAmerican folk singer
  • BornJuly 10, 1947
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger; Singer-songwriter