Arlo Guthrie famous quotes

04-12-2025

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?
-- Arlo Guthrie

#Christmas #Hair #Long
I don't want a pickle, just want to ride on my motorsickle
-- Arlo Guthrie

#Want #Pickles
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
-- Arlo Guthrie

#Dark #Light #Sticks
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.
-- Arlo Guthrie

#Ignorance #Responsibility #Views
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.
-- Arlo Guthrie

#Simple #People #Borders
I've been singing this song now for twenty five minutes. I could sing it for another twenty five minutes. I'm not proud... or tired.
-- Arlo Guthrie

#Song #Tired #Singing
But think of the last guy. For one minute, think of the last guy. Nobodys got it worse than that guy. Nobody in the whole world.
-- Arlo Guthrie

#Thinking #Guy #World
Ostrich is a very lean meat. Bison is a very lean meat. Chicken is a very lean meat. Notice something about my favorite meats?
-- Arlo Guthrie

#Ostriches #Meat #Bison
If you want to end war and stuff, you gotta sing loud.
-- Arlo Guthrie

#War #Want #Stuff
You teach kids how to succeed when they successfully foil the educational system.
-- Arlo Guthrie

#Educational #Kids #Succeed
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.
-- Arlo Guthrie

#Thinking #Two #Laughing
I froze in time! And I thought "My God......I'm free!
-- Arlo Guthrie
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.
-- Arlo Guthrie

#Motorcycle #Want #Pickles
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
-- Arlo Guthrie

#Running #Country #Wall
There are people all over the world who are willing to exploit others. You can't just point the finger at America
-- Arlo Guthrie

#America #People #World
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.
-- Arlo Guthrie

#Art #Taken #Talking
The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.
-- Arlo Guthrie

#Death #Birth
Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault.
-- Arlo Guthrie

#America #Greed #Faults
The New York State Freeway's closed, man. Far out!
-- Arlo Guthrie

#New York #Hippie #Men
Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted.
-- Arlo Guthrie

#Cute #Cute Love #Alive
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.
-- Arlo Guthrie

#Thinking #Fishing #Lines
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.
-- Arlo Guthrie

#Song #War #Thinking
There's only one God. Call him whatever you want
-- Arlo Guthrie

#Want
We went back, afterward, after the show was over that night, I took my kids backstage and said, "You know what? I know my dad's songs...
-- Arlo Guthrie

#Song #Dad #Kids
It's about the time I was riding my Motorcycle, going down a mountain road at 150 miles an hour, playing my guitar.
-- Arlo Guthrie

#Guitar #Motorcycle #Mountain
What's in that pipe that he's smoking?
-- Arlo Guthrie

#Humorous #Smoking #Pipe
We had a great time on the bench talking about crime, mother-stabbin', father raping, all kinds of groovy things.
-- Arlo Guthrie

#Mother #Father #Talking
I'd rather have friends who care than friends who agree with me.
-- Arlo Guthrie

#Who Cares #Care #Agree
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.
-- Arlo Guthrie

#Song #Serious #Said
Coming into Los Angeles, bringing in a couple of keys. Don't touch my bags, if you please Mr. Customs man.
-- Arlo Guthrie

#Couple #Men #Keys

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