Arlo Guthrie Quotes

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• Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, he must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, must be a pacifist. What's in that pipe that he's smoking?

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  Funny, Christmas, Hair

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• Everyone has troubles. Finding yourself in the same boat with everyone else is the first sign of spirituality.

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  Finding Yourself, Firsts, Spirituality

  "Arlo Guthrie celebrates 50 years at 'Alice's Restaurant'". Interview with Tammy Paolino, www.usatoday.com. November 13, 2015.

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• Being famous is not the same as being important. A lot of important people aren't famous, and a lot of famous people aren't important.

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  People, Important, Being Famous

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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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  Ignorance, Responsibility, Views

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• Songs are like fish. You just gotta have your line in the water. And it's a bad idea to fish downstream from Bob Dylan.

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  Song, Ideas, Water

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

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  Who Cares, Care, Agree

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• If you want to end war and stuff, you gotta sing loud.

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  War, Want, Stuff

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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.

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  Thinking, Two, Laughing

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

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  Want

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

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  Inspirational, Dark, Light

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

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  Want, Pickles

  Arlo Guthrie (1969). “This is the Arlo Guthrie book”, Amsco Music

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• No Judgment = No Expectations: That's my motto.

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  Expectations, Judgment, Motto

  "Arlo Guthrie celebrates 50 years at 'Alice's Restaurant'". Interview with Tammy Paolino, www.usatoday.com. November 12, 2015.

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• 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

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  Running, Country, Wall

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• Songwriting is like fishing in a stream; you put in your line and hope to catch something. And I don't think anyone downstream from Bob Dylan ever caught anything.

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  Thinking, Fishing, Lines

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• You teach kids how to succeed when they successfully foil the educational system.

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  Educational, Kids, Succeed

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

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  Death, Birth

  Song: Wake Up Dead, Album: Mystic Journey, 1996

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• Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted.

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  Love, Cute, Alive

  Song: Prologue, Album: Outlasting the Blues, 1993

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• We would turn everything into songs in those days...A lot of people think "Alice's Restaurant" was an anti-war song. It's not.

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  Song, War, Thinking

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• Coming into Los Angeles, bringing in a couple of keys. Don't touch my bags, if you please Mr. Customs man.

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  Couple, Men, Keys

  "Coming into Los Angeles" (song) (1969)

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• I don't want a pickle, I just want ride on my motorcikle. I don't want to die, I just want a ride on my motorcy........cle.

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  Motorcycle, Want, Pickles

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• 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.

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  Simple, People, Stuff

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• If readers understand that they do not understand what they are reading then they must possess an understanding which is superior to the meaning which caused that misunderstanding.

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  Reading, Understanding, Reader

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• Any big organization can be subverted by governments or multinational special interests. They have the resources to cast doubt and fear over any group they feel threatened by.

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  Government, Organization, Doubt

  "Arlo Guthrie celebrates 50 years of 'Alice'". Interview with Tammy Paolino, www.usatoday.com. November 19, 2015.

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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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  Art, Taken, Talking

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• Be serious. Folk songs are serious. That's what Pete Seeger told me. 'Arlo, I only wanna tell you one thing. Folk songs are serious.' And I said, 'Right.'

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  Song, Serious, Said

  Comment during the track "The Story of Reuben Clamzo" on the album "One Night", 1978.

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