Phil Ochs Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.

  Phil Ochs

  Song, Peace, People

  Broadside Magazine (1962), later quoted in James E. Perone "Songs of the Vietnam Conflict" (p. 19), 2001.

• There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.

  Phil Ochs

  Song, Mirrors, Musical

  "Phil Ochs in Concert". Live album by Phil Ochs (introduction to the song "The Marines Have Landed on the Shores of Santo Domingo"), March 1966.

• A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit.

  Phil Ochs

  Song, Mistake, Bullshit

  Liner notes for compilation album "The Broadside Tapes 1" by Phil Ochs, 1989.

• I write all my own songs and they are just simple melodies with a lot of lyrics. They usually have to do with current events and what is going on in the news. You can call them topical songs, songs about the news, and then developing into more philosophical songs later.

  Phil Ochs

  Song, Philosophical, Writing

  Phil Ochs' testimony at the Chicago Seven trial, December 11, 1969.

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