Dicristina Arlo Quotes

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. ~ Arlo Guthrie

Margaret [Arlo] was once asked how she felt about her life over the past fifty years. The look in her eyes revealed that she understood the true question: How is it that you continued over fifty years to be as poor as you were at the beginning? ... 'I'm rich-poor,' she said. 'You see, I got my son. I got my Bible. That's all I need. I don't treasure nothin' on earth. ~ Dale Maharidge

There aren't any GOOD guys. You realize that, don't you? I mean: there aren't EVIL guys, and INNOCENT guys. It's just - it's just... It's just a bunch of guys. ~ Jake Kasdan

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. ~ Arlo Guthrie

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. ~ Arlo Guthrie

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. ~ Arlo Guthrie

Arlo: Show her the ropes.
Finn: Where do we keep the ropes again? ~ Julie Anne Peters

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.' ~ Arlo Guthrie

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 ... ~ Arlo Guthrie

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

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. ~ Arlo Guthrie

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. ~ Arlo Guthrie

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. ~ Arlo Guthrie

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

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. ~ Arlo Guthrie

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

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

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

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

Democracy doesn't begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls 'The Patriot's Dream. ~ Bill Moyers

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

Anyway,' he said, without hearing me, 'that whole week he was gone, Bis sat next to the dumpster and didn't move, and we all thought he was waiting by the road for Arlo to come back. Except we had it wrong- he was waiting for us to find Arlo. ~ Tea Obreht

No Judgment = No Expectations: That's my motto. ~ Arlo Guthrie

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. ~ Arlo Guthrie

What's in that pipe that he's smoking? ~ Arlo Guthrie

All the blood spilled from her face, making the bruises grotesquely bright. "Oh God ... " She stumbled back, away from him, her hands flying to her mouth. "You killed him?" It was insulting and amusing that that was the first place her mind always seemed to go where Arlo and Killen were concerned. "And if I did?" He circled around her slowly, taking a sort of pleasure in her panic. She rounded on him. "Then you gave up a bit of your soul for someone who didn't deserve it. Yes, Arlo deserves to die. Yes, I imagined doing it myself a million times. But he has no right to taint any part of you with his ... his evil. ~ Airicka Phoenix

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. ~ Arlo Guthrie

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

Dog days! "The sea boiled, the wine turned sour, dogs grew mad, and all other creatures became languid, causing to man, among other diseases, burning fever, hysterics and phrensies. ~ Jimmy Johnson Quoted In Arlo Janis Cartoon

One of the first things was I made Arlo [the Apatosaurus] a younger character. And then when I was that age (around 11 or 12), what was I like? Sweat pants, turtle-neck kid; didn't know anything about fashion or style, the culture of the world. I was very sheltered. ~ Peter Sohn

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

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. ~ Arlo Guthrie

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

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. ~ Arlo Guthrie

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

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. ~ Arlo Guthrie