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"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."
"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?"
"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."
"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."
"You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in."
"Everyone has troubles. Finding yourself in the same boat with everyone else is the first sign of spirituality."
"If you want to end war and stuff, you gotta sing loud."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I don't want a pickle, just want to ride on my motorsickle"
"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"
"Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted."
"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."
"I'd rather have friends who care than friends who agree with me."
"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.'"
"Being famous is not the same as being important. A lot of important people aren't famous, and a lot of famous people aren't important."
"Coming into Los Angeles, bringing in a couple of keys. Don't touch my bags, if you please Mr. Customs man."
"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."
"Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault."