Arlo Guthrie Quotes

Ostrich is a very lean meat. Bison is a very lean meat. Chicken is a very lean meat. Notice something about my favorite meats?

I don't write as many songs as I used to. But, I find myself writing for social media more - times have changed. And I love photography, so a lot of my creative energy gets caught up that way.

I've written quite a variety of songs, everything from kids songs to political satire, and my dad covered a fairly large range, also.

What's in that pipe that he's smoking?

We went back, afterward, after the show was over that night, I took my kids backstage and said, You know what? I know my dad's songs ...

We had a great time on the bench talking about crime, mother-stabbin', father raping, all kinds of groovy things.

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

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.

You don't need spirituality to discover the troubles that come your way. But, it's good to know that troubles are not unique to you alone.

Song-writing's just kinda like catching fish--you sit there and pull them out as they go by--though I think Bob Dylan's up stream from me somewhere.

I'm not just a singer-songwriter doing songs in the key of me.

Along with a sense of humor, my songs have to be sincere, and they have to be sung from a position of inner conviction.

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.'

If you do anything for 40 years, you can do it comfortably. And it will always be good. But unless you're willing to risk it being bad, it can never be great.

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

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

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.

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.

The New York State Freeway's closed, man. Far out!

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

I've been singing this song now for twenty five minutes. I could sing it for another twenty five minutes. I'm not proud ... or tired.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It's about the time I was riding my Motorcycle, going down a mountain road at 150 miles an hour, playing my guitar.

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.

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