Arlo Guthrie Quotes

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Arlo Guthrie

Profession : Musician

Birth : July 10, 1947

We would turn everything into songs in those days.

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.

Arlo Guthrie

There are people all over the world who are willing to exploit others. You can't just point the finger at America.

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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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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.

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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.'

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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.

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

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

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Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault.

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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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