Quote #43

We got our heads bashed in Chicago; we saw students shot to death at Kent State; we had people stabbed to death at the Rolling Stones' Altamont concert - what do we have to believe in anymore? Unfortunately, for Phil Ochs, he couldn't give an answer. He lost his faith.

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  1. I just can't keep up with Phil. And he's getting better and better and better.
  2. That was really Phil's strong point. The big rally. He was a topical singer. He sang a lot of songs about the news of the day. When he perf…
  3. [The Yippie demonstrations were] merely an attack of mental disobedience on an obediently insane society ... and if you feel you have been …
  4. Phil believed strongly that one could change events, or change people's perception, through a well-crafted song.
  5. The American Politician has developed into the gutless master of procrastination with a maximum of non-committal statement and the barest m…
  6. He was kind of forbidden fruit in a way. Everybody thinks of the '60s as being nothing but radicals and hippies and crazy people, but when …
  7. One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.
  8. 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…

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