Phil Ochs Quotes
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When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right.
— Phil Ochs
If the great Phil Ochs were to rise from the dead today, he would probably be hailed as the new David Rovics.
— Andy Kershaw
The only way to Cuba is with the CIA.
— Phil Ochs
In the state of Mississippi, Many Years Ago, a boy of 14 years got a taste of Southern law.
— Phil Ochs
You can do right or you can do what you are told. And the prize of the victory will belong to the bold.
— Phil Ochs
Call it peace or call it treason / call it love or call it reason / but I ain't marching anymore
— Phil Ochs
I like Hitler, jolly jolly Hitler.
— Phil Ochs
The painter paints his brushes blackThrough the canvas runs a crackPortrait of the pain never answers back.
— Phil Ochs
The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad.
— Phil Ochs
I heard Pete Seeger records when I was a kid. I saw Bob Dylan when I was about 12. The first song I ever learned to play was a song by Phil Ochs.
— Ketch Secor
In the town of Bethlehem many years ago, a man got religion and he changed the status quo.
— Phil Ochs
So good to be alive when the eulogies are read.
— Phil Ochs
Maybe we should raise our voices, ask somebody why. But demonstrations are a drag, besides we're much too high.
— Phil Ochs
success is an enemy to the losers of the day
— Phil Ochs
The truest protest is beauty.
— Phil Ochs
Is there anybody here who thinks that following the orders takes away the blame Is there anybody here who wouldn't mind a murder by another name?
— Phil Ochs
Love is a rainbow curving down from the sky, falling crystals of color, shades of warm that never die.
— Phil Ochs
God isn't dead--he's just missing in action.
— Phil Ochs
Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.
— Phil Ochs
Some people never get their feet on the ground, They're either sitting in a chair or theyre laying down ...
— Phil Ochs
Comfort his family with a telegram, we regret to inform you we lost a man, but we gave him the highest medal of the land.
— Phil Ochs
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt.
— Phil Ochs
America is two Mack trucks colliding on a superhighway because all the drivers are on amphetamines.
— Phil Ochs
One legged veterans will greet the dawn, and they're whistling marches as they mow the lawn, and the gargoyles on sit and grieve.
— Phil Ochs
One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.
— Phil Ochs
The only possibility in the United States for a humane society would be a revolution with Elvis Presley as leader.
— Phil Ochs