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Phil Ochs
 
Date of birth: 19 December 1940
Date of death: 09 April 1976
Country Of Origin: America
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Singer

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" America is two Mack trucks colliding on a superhighway because all the drivers are on amphetamines. "

Phil Ochs
" 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. "

Phil Ochs
" Before the days of television and mass media, the folksinger was often a traveling newspaper spreading tales through music. "

Phil Ochs
" Does defending liberalism leave you friendless and perhaps wondering about your breath? "

Phil Ochs
" 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. "

Phil Ochs
" God isn't dead-he's just missing in action. "

Phil Ochs
" 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. "

Phil Ochs
" In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty. "

Phil Ochs
" It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win. "

Phil Ochs
" Leave the old and dying America and use your creative energies to help form a new America, which would be de-militarized, more humanistic, where the police are less hostile and closer to the community, where the wealthy are not given unleashed power for the exploitation of the people. "

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" Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend. "

Phil Ochs
" Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality. "

Phil Ochs
" The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles. "

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
" There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song. "

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