American - Musician | July 10, 1947 -
Yes, I was born in Coney Island. The Holy Land.
Arlo Guthrie
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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.'
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Thank God that the people that run this world are not smart enough to keep running it forever. You know, everybody gets a handle on it for a little while.
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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.
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I'm not just a singer-songwriter doing songs in the key of me.
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I left the entertainment industry part of my life behind in 1983, when we decided not to work with major record companies anymore.
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Everywhere I go, I see all kinds of people at my shows - conservatives, liberals, new-agers, teen-agers, old pensioners. And for those people to have something in common is real interesting to me.
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Along with a sense of humor, my songs have to be sincere, and they have to be sung from a position of inner conviction.
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I've written quite a variety of songs, everything from kids songs to political satire, and my dad covered a fairly large range, also.
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Probably my two biggest musical influences were the Everly Brothers and the Beatles, in chronological order. Both of them have had a very simple-sounding musical style that's actually quite complex as far as popular songs are concerned.
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