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  • She's staring down her desires, while they're staring down her dress.

  • The people who carried the burden, who marked in strange field in search of an answer, and ended their journeys an unwilling hero.

  • The Yippie demonstrations were merely an attack of mental disobedience on an obediently insane society... and if you feel you have been living in an unreal world for the last couple of years, it is particularly because this power structure has refused to listen to reason... Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.

    "An American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Period". Book by Charles DeBenedetti, 1990.
  • 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.

    Liner notes for compilation album "The Broadside Tapes 1" by Phil Ochs, 1989.
  • I'm gonna give all I've got to giveCross my heart, and I hope to live.

    Song: Cross My Heart
  • God isn't dead - he's just missing in action.

    Liner notes for compilation album "The Broadside Tapes 1" by Phil Ochs, 1989.
  • In the town of Bethlehem many years ago, a man got religion and he changed the status quo.

  • In every political community there are varying shades of political opinion. One of the shadiest of these is the liberals. An outspoken group on many subjects. Ten degrees to the left of center in good times. Ten degrees to the right of center if it affects them personally. Here, then, is a lesson in safe logic.

    "Phil Ochs in Concert". Live album by Phil Ochs (introduction to the song "Love Me, I'm a Liberal"), March 1966.
  • The only possibility in the United States for a humane society would be a revolution with Elvis Presley as leader.

  • It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win. Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life.

    "Complete Phil Ochs: Chords of Fame". Book edited by Tom Nolan and Mark Eliot, 1978.
  • Some people never get their feet on the ground, They're either sitting in a chair or theyre laying down.

    Song: Fifty Mile Hike
  • In the state of Mississippi, Many Years Ago, a boy of 14 years got a taste of Southern law.

    Song: Too Many Martyrs, Album: All the News That's Fit to Sing
  • Only as strong as our love for this land, only as tall as we stand.

    Song: The Power and The Glory, Album: All the News That's Fit to Sing
  • America is two Mack trucks colliding on a superhighway because all the drivers are on amphetamines.

    Liner notes for compilation album "The Broadside Tapes 1" by Phil Ochs, 1989.
  • I can spare a dime, brother, but in these morally inflationary times, a dime goes a lot farther if it's demanding work rather than adding to the indignity of relief.

    Interview with Michael Ross, 1969.
  • God help the troubadour who tries to be a star. The more that you try to find success, the more that you will fail.

  • 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?

    Song: Is There Anybody Here
  • Love is a rainbow curving down from the sky, falling crystals of color, shades of warm that never die.

  • In the courtroom, watch the balance of the scalesIf the price is right, there's time for more appealsThe strings are pulled, the switch is stayedThe finest lawyers fees are paidAnd a rich man never died upon the chair

    Song: The Iron Lady, Album: I Ain't Marching Anymore
  • Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt.

    "Complete Phil Ochs: Chords of Fame". Book edited by Tom Nolan and Mark Eliot, 1978.
  • I like Hitler, jolly jolly Hitler.

    Song: I Like Hitler
  • One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.

    Broadside Magazine (1962), later quoted in James E. Perone "Songs of the Vietnam Conflict" (p. 19), 2001.
  • I wonder who I left behind on the other side of fame.

    Song: Chords of Fame, Album: Greatest Hits
  • You can do right or you can do what you are told. And the prize of the victory will belong to the bold.

  • 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.

    America  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The truest protest is beauty.

  • Well I've seen travel in many waysI've traveled in cars and old subwaysBut in Birmingham some people choseTo fly down the street from a fire hose.Doin' some hard travelin'...from hydrants of plenty.

    Song: Talking Birmingham Jam
  • And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.

    America  
    Liner notes for compilation album "The Broadside Tapes 1" by Phil Ochs, 1989.
  • Show me a country where the bombs had to fallShow me the ruins of buildings so tallAnd I'll show you a young landWith many reasons whyThere but for fortune, go you or IYou or I.

  • Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

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    Phil Ochs

    • Born: December 19, 1940
    • Died: April 9, 1976
    • Occupation: Singer-songwriter