Quotes by Utah Phillips - Page 1

It is better to be likable than to be talented.
Utah Phillips / Singer
Talented
Likable
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The most un-American thing you can do is to stifle dissent
Utah Phillips / Singer
Can Do
Dissent
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What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.
Utah Phillips / Singer
Army
Pacifist
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Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen.
Utah Phillips / Singer
Best Performance
Performances
Poet
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The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.
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Sing your song Dance your dance Tell your story I will Listen and remember
Utah Phillips / Singer
Remember
Song
Stories
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I'm here to change the world, and if I am not, I am probably wasting my time.
Utah Phillips / Singer
Ifs
Wasting My Time
World
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As I have said so often before, the long memory is the most radical idea in America...
Utah Phillips / Singer
America
Ideas
Memories
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Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.
Utah Phillips / Singer
Kids
Educator
Teaching
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The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.
Utah Phillips / Singer
Dying
Names
People
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
Utah Phillips / Singer
Abundance
Fame
Found
Wealth
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
Utah Phillips / Singer
Freight
Trains
Paying
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Children, be worried when they call you America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they've done to the other natural resources?
Utah Phillips / Singer
America
Children
Done
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Oh, mercy, I think we're all storytellers, you know. You think of the excuses you told your parents for why you got home late. I just never gave it up.
Utah Phillips / Singer
Mercy
Home Your Parents
Excuses
Storytellers
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Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to be, she's at the center of it.
Utah Phillips / Singer
Country
Passion
Song
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I created my own party. It's called the Sloth and Indolence Party, and I'm running as an anarchist candidate in the best sense of that word. I've studied the presidency carefully.
Utah Phillips / Singer
Anarchist
Indolence
Presidency
Sloth
Studied
Candidate
Carefully
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The most important movement in the world is the feminist movement. If we can really figure out what's going on between men and women, the other problems will take care of themselves. I'm sure of it.
Utah Phillips / Singer
Men And Women
Movement
Take Care
Women Men World
Figure
The Most Important
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When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend, Norman Ritchie, the traveling teenage sage, started calling me U. Utah Phillips.
Utah Phillips / Singer
Calling
Sage
Teenage
Texas
Utah
Love Learning Music
Favorite
Friend
Singer
Tyler
My Friend
Norman
Ritchie
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Folk music isn't owned by anybody. It is owned by everybody, like the national parks, the postal system, and the school system. It's our common property. There is nobody's name on it. Nobody can make money on it. It's not copywritten.
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Names
National Parks
School
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They're going to clear cut your best thoughts for the sake of profit unless you learn to resist, because the profit system follows the path of least resistance and following the path of least resistance is what makes the river crooked!
Utah Phillips / Singer
Path
Resistance
Rivers
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When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn't begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.
Utah Phillips / Singer
Engagement
Limits
Begins
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The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.
Utah Phillips / Singer
Freedom
Eye
Giving
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But if it’s true that the only true life I had was the life of my brain, what sense does it make to hand that brain to somebody for eight hours a day for their particular use on the presumption that, at the end of the day, they will give it back in an unmutilated condition? Fat chance!
Utah Phillips / Singer
Eight
Giving
Hands
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I have seen that our best presidents were the do-nothing presidents: Millard Fillmore, Warren G. Harding. When you have a president who does things, we are all in serious trouble. If he does anything at all, if he gets up at night to go the bathroom, somehow, mystically, trouble will ensue.
Utah Phillips / Singer
Bathroom
Night
President
Serious
Trouble
Does
Seen
Gets
Somehow
Warren
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I guarantee, that if I am elected, I will take over the White House, hang out, shoot pool, scratch my ass, and not do a damn thing . . . Which is to say, if you want something done, don't come to me to do it for you; you got to get together and figure out how to do it yourselves. Is that a deal?
Utah Phillips / Singer
Guarantees That
Want Something
White
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When I went to high school - that's about as far as I got - reading my U.S. history textbook, well, I got the history of the ruling class. I got the history of the generals and the industrialists and the presidents that didn't get caught. How 'bout you? I got all of the history of the people who owned the wealth of the country, but none of the history of the people that created it.
Utah Phillips / Singer
Country
Reading
School
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I said, "OK, Ammon [Hennacy], I will try that." He said, "You came into the world armed to the teeth. With an arsenal of weapons, weapons of privilege, economic privilege, sexual privilege, racial privilege. You want to be a pacifist, you're not just going to have to give up guns, knives, clubs, hard, angry words, you are going to have lay down the weapons of privilege and go into the world completely disarmed."
Utah Phillips / Singer
Giving Up
Gun
Knives
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Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were fought for, they were bled for, they were died for by working people, by people like us. Kids ought to know that.
Utah Phillips / Singer
Brother
Country
Song
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My pacifism came after I joined the army and was shipped over to Korea. There was a little one-room orphanage there called Song-do. There were 180 babies in there, and they were GI babies. The U.S. government would not acknowledge this, and the Korean government had nothing to do with them. They were living on a 100-pound bag of rice a month. Some of those kids, when they were old enough, would go out and shine shoes. They would show up at the gate of our compound to shine shoes, and you'd swear they were looking for their fathers.
Utah Phillips / Singer
Baby
Father
Song
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Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries, and everything they thought and every struggle they went through and everything they gave their lives to, and every song they created, and every poem that they laid down flows down to me – and if I take the time to ask, and if I take the time to see, and if I take the time to reach out, I can build that bridge between my world and theirs. I can reach down into that river and take out what I need to get through this world
Utah Phillips / Singer
Bridges
Song
Struggle
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You are about to be told one more time that you are America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they do to valuable natural resources?! Have you seen a strip mine? Have you seen a clear cut in the forest? Have you seen a polluted river? Don't ever let them call you a valuable natural resource! They're going to strip mine your soul. They're going to clear cut your best thoughts for the sake of profit unless you learn to resist, because the profit system follows the path of least resistance and following the path of least resistance is what makes the river crooked!
Utah Phillips / Singer
Inspirational
Nature
Cutting
Usa
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