Arlo Davy Guthrie (b.1947) is an American folk singer-songwriter. Like his father, Woody Guthrie, Arlo is known for singing songs of protest against social injustice. Guthrie’s best-known work was his debut piece “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree”, a satirical talking blues song about 18 minutes in length that has since become a Thanksgiving anthem, and his lone top-40 hit was a cover of Steve Goodman’s “City of New Orleans.” His song “Massachusetts” was named the official folk song of the state in which he has lived most of his adult life. Guthrie has also made several acting appearances over the course of his life, and he has also fathered four children who have likewise gone on to careers as musicians.
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Greed and globalization aren’t just America’s fault.
—Arlo Guthrie
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.
—Arlo Guthrie
Topics: Responsibility
You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in.
—Arlo Guthrie
The death of what’s dead is the birth of what’s living.
—Arlo Guthrie
Topics: Death, Dying
Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted.
—Arlo Guthrie
Topics: Love
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