Arlo Guthrie Quotes

Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, he must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, must be a pacifist. What's in that pipe that he's smoking?

Being famous is not the same as being important. A lot of important people aren't famous, and a lot of famous people aren't important.

Everyone has troubles. Finding yourself in the same boat with everyone else is the first sign of spirituality.

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.

Songs are like fish. You just gotta have your line in the water. And it's a bad idea to fish downstream from Bob Dylan.

I'd rather have friends who care than friends who agree with me.

If you want to end war and stuff, you gotta sing loud.

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.

There's only one God. Call him whatever you want

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

I don't want a pickle, just want to ride on my motorsickle

No Judgment = No Expectations: That's my motto.

Songwriting is like fishing in a stream; you put in your line and hope to catch something. And I don't think anyone downstream from Bob Dylan ever caught anything.

Building walls isn't going to work in the long run. Some people are happy with the wall in Israel, but somebody will get a weapon someday and knock it over or something. Walls aren't the answer between countries, though

You teach kids how to succeed when they successfully foil the educational system.

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

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

We would turn everything into songs in those days...A lot of people think "Alice's Restaurant" was an anti-war song. It's not.

If readers understand that they do not understand what they are reading then they must possess an understanding which is superior to the meaning which caused that misunderstanding.

We live in an increasingly sophisticated world that makes it difficult to make simple comments on stuff. There are too many people on both sides of the border who are taking advantage of circumstances and the situation.

Coming into Los Angeles, bringing in a couple of keys. Don't touch my bags, if you please Mr. Customs man.

I don't want a pickle, I just want ride on my motorcikle. I don't want to die, I just want a ride on my motorcy........cle.

Any big organization can be subverted by governments or multinational special interests. They have the resources to cast doubt and fear over any group they feel threatened by.

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.

Be serious. Folk songs are serious. That's what Pete Seeger told me. 'Arlo, I only wanna tell you one thing. Folk songs are serious.' And I said, 'Right.'