90 Quotes by Arlo Guthrie

Yes, I was born in Coney Island. The Holy Land.

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.

I think of my parents as a single unit, and it's interesting because they shared so much, and they were totally opposite. My mother, a Martha Graham dancer, had a classical background; my father had a back-porch background.

Music is a nice friend to have around, whether it is just for yourself or for other people. If you can enjoy it, being professional is almost secondary.

My dad's songs were really written to make certain people feel as though they had some kind of value. Because they were told from where they work and from the countries they had immigrated from that they did not.

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.

It's about the time I was riding my Motorcycle, going down a mountain road at 150 miles an hour, playing my guitar.

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...

I froze in time! And I thought "My God......I'm free!