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All Quotes by author - Arlo Guthrie
" 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 change the course of history. "
Environmental
Time
History
" Building walls isn't going to work in the long run. Some people are happy with the wall in Israel, but somebody will get a weapon someday and knock it over or something. Walls aren't the answer between countries, though. "
Run
Long
Work
" 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. "
Got
World
Think
" Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people. "
Challenge
Responsibility
Challenges
" 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. "
Own
Everyday
Music
" Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault. "
America
Greed
Globalization
" I don't do anything on stage that allows me to become a trained seal, where you're just doing the same thing over and over. "
Stage
Doing
Me
" I don't want a pickle, just want to ride on my motorsickle. "
Ride
Want
Just
" I'd rather have friends who care than friends who agree with me. "
Agree
Who
Rather
" I think of my parents as a single unit, and it's interesting because they shared so much, and they were totally opposite. My mother, a Martha Graham dancer, had a classical background; my father had a back-porch background. "
Parents
Father
Think
" I thought I would be governor of Massachusetts. I stood on a pile of my old albums and said, 'I'm the only one with a record to stand on.' "
Old
Only
Said
" 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. "
People
Nice
Yourself
" 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. "
People
Value
Work
" 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. "
Me
She
Mother
" 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 good about who they are. "
Good
Father
End
" People were talking about songs of the common man in order to make the common man. With Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, they were so common it was just uncommon. "
People
Talking
Uncommon
" 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. "
World
Smart
God
" The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living. "
Living
Dead
Birth
" There are people all over the world who are willing to exploit others. You can't just point the finger at America. "
World
You
People
" There's only one God. Call him whatever you want. "
Whatever
Want
Only
" We live in an increasingly sophisticated world that makes it difficult to make simple comments on stuff. There are too many people on both sides of the border who are taking advantage of circumstances and the situation. "
Simple
Situation
Live
" We would turn everything into songs in those days. "
Those
Songs
Days
" With the advent of radio and recording, music became an industry rather than just a tradition. "
Tradition
Radio
Music
" Yes, I was born in Coney Island. The Holy Land. "
I Was Born
Yes
Born
" You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in. "
Without
You
Stick
" 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. "
Talking
People
Over
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