Quotes by Arlo Guthrie

“Id rather have friends who care than friends who agree with me.”

“Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another persons 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.”

“But think of the last guy. For one minute, think of the last guy. Nobodys got it worse than that guy. Nobody in the whole world.”

“Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted”

“Im so happy to be here.”

“A lot of people think Alices Restaurant was an anti-war song. Its not. Its an anti-idiot song,”

“We are thrilled that we have been able to make some small dent in all that is wrong down here.”

“You cant have a light without a dark to stick it in.”

“Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, He must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, Must be a pacifist. Whats in that pipe that hes smoking?The Pause of Mr. Claus”

“The death of whats dead is the birth of whats living.”

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.

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

The death of whats dead is the birth of whats living.

At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war movement was happening, the ban the bomb movement was happening, the environmental movement was happening. There was suddenly a generation ready to change the course of history.