90 Quotes by Arlo Guthrie



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    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.

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    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?

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    I wasn't very reliable. People like Pete Seeger would show up there, obviously needing somebody to accompany him on the guitar while he went over some new songs. All of the office work just got left.

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    With all of the history that he'd had with the Weavers, he really was a connection between my dad's era and the world of the late 60's.

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    We are thrilled that we have been able to make some small dent in all that is wrong down here.

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    A lot of people think 'Alice's Restaurant' was an anti-war song. It's not. It's an anti-idiot song,

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