Phil Ochs Quotes

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life.

Phil Ochs

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 19, 1940 - April 9, 1976

Topics

LifeArtReligionWorldYouDefeat

Privately, I'm thrilled with what I do, but publicly, I hold it in disdain.

Jim Crace

HoldDisdainThrilledPublicly

Cartola is an artist from Brazil who didn't record until much later in his life, but had a big influence on a lot of famous artists down there, like Gilberto Gil. I discovered his music recently when I was in Brazil.

Jesse Harris

LifeMusicInfluenceArtistDown

Whenever you make love to someone, there should be three people involved - you, the other person, and the devil.

Robert Mapplethorpe

LovePeopleSomeoneDevilYouThree

Growing up in Britain as a rather loose Jew, the two things that didn't belong together were freedom and religious intensity. In America, they do. The Founding Fathers made a bet that if you didn't force everyone to profess religion in their own particular way, you could protect intellectual freedom, and religion would flourish.

Simon Schama

FreedomTogetherReligionGrowing Up

TV is designed a certain way where you have three, four days on stage and three or four days out. You're basically making a feature every seven days. You have to shoot an hour's worth.

Roger Avary

WorthYouThreeWayStageOut

I'm really excited to put music out that is a clear projection of my lifestyle.

Miguel

MusicLifestyleOutExcitedClear

'Redemption' sounds like a jubilee. Like a second line, if you will.

Dawn Richard

YouWillRedemptionLineLike

I had a great childhood. Even though I never had my own room - I shared the porch with my grandfather and kept my belongings in one drawer of a dresser that was jammed next to the piano - I never went hungry and was always supported by my family.

Clint Hill

FamilyGreatChildhoodGrandfather

As a boy, I didn't need a lot of playmates to have a good time.

Bruce Boxleitner

GoodTimeBoyNeedGood TimeLot

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

Marilyn Hacker

PoetryBookWriteEveryoneGoing

It has become fashionable to rail against government intervention in the economy, and the FHA is a favorite example by those trying to show the government's overreach. In reality, the FHA shows how government action during the Great Recession forestalled a much worse economic fate.

Mark Zandi

GreatGovernmentActionFateReality

In the spring of 1978, when my parents were 23, my mother gave birth to me on their friend Robert's farm in Oregon with the help of two midwives. The labor and delivery took three hours, start to finish.

Lisa Brennan-Jobs

FriendMotherSpringParentsStart

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