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I wonder who I left behind on the other side of fame.
Phil Ochs
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Phil Ochs
Age: 35 †
Born: 1940
Born: December 19
Died: 1976
Died: April 9
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Singer-Songwriter
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El Paso
Texas
Philip David Ochs
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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.
Phil Ochs
Does defending liberalism leave you friendless and perhaps wondering about your breath?
Phil Ochs
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.
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Call it peace or call it treason / call it love or call it reason / but I ain't marching anymore
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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
The people who carried the burden, who marked in strange field in search of an answer, and ended their journeys an unwilling hero.
Phil Ochs
I write all my own songs and they are just simple melodies with a lot of lyrics. They usually have to do with current events and what is going on in the news. You can call them topical songs, songs about the news, and then developing into more philosophical songs later.
Phil Ochs
Love is a rainbow curving down from the sky, falling crystals of color, shades of warm that never die.
Phil Ochs
The only possibility in the United States for a humane society would be a revolution with Elvis Presley as leader.
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.
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I'm gonna give all I've got to giveCross my heart, and I hope to live.
Phil Ochs
In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.
Phil Ochs
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
Phil Ochs
A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit.
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
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
Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.
Phil Ochs
I like Hitler, jolly jolly Hitler.
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
Beneath the greatest love lies a hurricane of hate.
Phil Ochs