Arlo Guthrie Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• 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

  Song: Alice's Restaurant Massacree, 1990

• 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.

  Arlo Guthrie

  Song, Ideas, Water

• 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

• 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

  Comment during the track "The Story of Reuben Clamzo" on the album "One Night", 1978.

• I don't write as many songs as I used to. But, I find myself writing for social media more - times have changed. And I love photography, so a lot of my creative energy gets caught up that way.

  Arlo Guthrie

  Photography, Song, Writing

  "Arlo Guthrie celebrates 50 years of 'Alice'". Interview with Tammy Paolino, www.usatoday.com. November 19, 2015.

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