American - Musician | July 10, 1947 -
I'd rather have friends who care than friends who agree with me.
Arlo Guthrie
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There's only one God. Call him whatever you want.
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We would turn everything into songs in those days.
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There are people all over the world who are willing to exploit others. You can't just point the finger at America.
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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My mother had introduced me to a lot of my father's friends because she believed that I would get to know the guy my dad was better through his friends than just in the hospital visits.
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People were talking about songs of the common man in order to make the common man. With Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, they were so common it was just uncommon.
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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.
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With the advent of radio and recording, music became an industry rather than just a tradition.
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