Arlo Guthrie Quotes

“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.”

“Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.”

“The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.”

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

“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.”

“Now as through this world I ramble I see lots of funny men Some rob you with a six gun Some with a fountain pen.”

“Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.”

“[A]nd you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestow”

“A RELATIONSHIP SHOULD NOT HAVE LOVE THAT HAS CONDITIONS.THE LOVE SHOULD BE UNCONDITIONAL.A RELATIONSHIP WILL NOT SURVIVE IFTHERE IS NOT THIS LOVE.One should have a blending of physical, mental, and spiritual and not just physical or one part, and not the others.”

“Pick the things you do in this day wisely.”