Phil Ochs Quotes - Page 2

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• Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

  Phil Ochs

  Men, Jail, Gone

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• I'm gonna give all I've got to giveCross my heart, and I hope to live.

  Phil Ochs

  Heart, Giving, My Heart

  Song: Cross My Heart

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• Oh you tell me that there's danger to the land you call your own, And you watch them build the war machine right beside your home, And you tell me that you're ready to go marchin' to the war, I know you're set for fighting, but what are you fighting for?

  Phil Ochs

  War, Fighting, Land

  "Song: What Are You Fighting For (Songs for Broadside)". 1976.

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• The Yippie demonstrations were merely an attack of mental disobedience on an obediently insane society... and if you feel you have been living in an unreal world for the last couple of years, it is particularly because this power structure has refused to listen to reason... Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.

  Phil Ochs

  Couple, Reality, Years

  "An American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Period". Book by Charles DeBenedetti, 1990.

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• I wonder who I left behind on the other side of fame.

  Phil Ochs

  Art, Media, Sides

  Song: Chords of Fame, Album: Greatest Hits

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• Comfort his family with a telegram, we regret to inform you we lost a man, but we gave him the highest medal of the land.

  Phil Ochs

  Regret, Men, Land

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• Only as strong as our love for this land, only as tall as we stand.

  Phil Ochs

  Strong, Land, Our Love

  Song: The Power and The Glory, Album: All the News That's Fit to Sing

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• Is there anybody here who thinks that following the orders takes away the blame Is there anybody here who wouldn't mind a murder by another name?

  Phil Ochs

  Thinking, Order, Names

  Song: Is There Anybody Here

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• Does defending liberalism leave you friendless and perhaps wondering about your breath?

  Phil Ochs

  Doe, Wonder, Liberalism

  "Have you Heard? The War is Over!". The Village Voice, November 23, 1967.

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• When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right.

  Phil Ochs

  Color, Tvs, Looks

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

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• She's staring down her desires, while they're staring down her dress.

  Phil Ochs

  Art, Media, Desire

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• 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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• The glory that was Lincoln's never died when he was slain.

  Phil Ochs

  Politics, Glory, Died

  Song: That Was the President, Album: I Ain't Marching Anymore

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• The people who carried the burden, who marked in strange field in search of an answer, and ended their journeys an unwilling hero.

  Phil Ochs

  Inspirational, Hero, Journey

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• God isn't dead - he's just missing in action.

  Phil Ochs

  Missing You, Missing, Action

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

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• God help the troubadour who tries to be a star. The more that you try to find success, the more that you will fail.

  Phil Ochs

  Success, Stars, Trying

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• Mother Goose is on the loose, stealing lines from Lenny Bruce.

  Phil Ochs

  Mother, Games, Lines

  Song: The Harder They Fall

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• So do your duty, boys, and join with prideServe your country in her suicideFind the flags so you can wave goodbyeBut just before the end even treason might be worth a tryThis country is too young to dieI declare the war is overIt's over, it's over.

  Phil Ochs

  Country, War, Boys

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• Show me a country where the bombs had to fallShow me the ruins of buildings so tallAnd I'll show you a young landWith many reasons whyThere but for fortune, go you or IYou or I.

  Phil Ochs

  Country, Bombs, Ruins

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• And I won't be laughing at the lies when I'm goneAnd I can't question how or when or why when I'm goneCan't live proud enough to die when I'm goneSo I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here.

  Phil Ochs

  Lying, Laughing, Atheism

  Song: When I'm Gone, Album: Phil Ochs in Concert

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• One legged veterans will greet the dawn, and they're whistling marches as they mow the lawn, and the gargoyles on sit and grieve.

  Phil Ochs

  Grieving, Dawn, Politics

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• Well I've seen travel in many waysI've traveled in cars and old subwaysBut in Birmingham some people choseTo fly down the street from a fire hose.Doin' some hard travelin'...from hydrants of plenty.

  Phil Ochs

  Fire, People, Car

  Song: Talking Birmingham Jam

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• In the town of Bethlehem many years ago, a man got religion and he changed the status quo.

  Phil Ochs

  Religious, Men, Years

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• The only way to Cuba is with the CIA.

  Phil Ochs

  Cuba, Way, Cia

  Song: Ballad of William Worthy, Album: All the News That's Fit to Sing

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• I like Hitler, jolly jolly Hitler.

  Phil Ochs

  Evil, Jolly

  Song: I Like Hitler

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