“I have a good friend in the East, who comes to my shows and says, you sing a lot about the past, you can't live in the past, you know. I say to him, I can go outside and pick… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to be, she's… — Utah Phillips Copy Share
“Yes, the long memory is the most radical idea in this country. It is the loss of that long memory which deprives our people… — Utah Phillips Copy Share
Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions. — Utah Phillips Copy Share
I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without… — Utah Phillips Copy Share
You are about to be told one more time that you are America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they do to… — Utah Phillips Copy Share
When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend,… — Utah Phillips Copy Share
Folk music isn't owned by anybody. It is owned by everybody, like the national parks, the postal system, and the school system. It's our… — Utah Phillips Copy Share
“These kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the… — Utah Phillips Copy Share
I said, "OK, Ammon [Hennacy], I will try that." He said, "You came into the world armed to the teeth. With an arsenal of… — Utah Phillips Copy Share
Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries, and everything… — Utah Phillips Copy Share
“Frying-Pan Jack and I were in that camp, that's where he said to me, he'd been tramping since 1927, 'I told myself in '27,… — Utah Phillips Copy Share
“Q: What can people do to defend their civil liberties? Phillips: I'm a pacifist, but the most American thing you can do is to… — Utah Phillips Copy Share
