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My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in between.


Tom Chapin

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That's what I aspire to, ... Pete Seeger is the one who writes the songs that unite people.
DAR WILLIAMS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyric...
JOHN MELLENCAMP We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.
P. J. O'ROURKE I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about,...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I've always loved the songs of the sea. I was first introduced to them back in 1957, at the Old ...
ROGER MCGUINN People were talking about songs of the common man in order to make the common man. With Woody Guthri...
ARLO GUTHRIE The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING thing...
JOHN GREEN Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, ...
TOM MORELLO I have two mini huskies called Woody Guthrie and Edison Guthrie.
DHANI HARRISON There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
NINA SIMONE The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but wha...
STEPHEN R. COVEY Growing up, I listened to a lot of American singer/songwriters, so a lot of Tom Waits, Paul Simon - ...
GEORGE EZRA Everyone in my family sang, and we would always sing these songs.
CHAKA KHAN Pink makes me feel both young and old. There is no in between.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS You know something is wrong when you are known for what you are against, instead of what you are for...
JADE HAJJ There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
NINA SIMONE You have to always try to think about them like real people first, and not just heroes. They have to...
GREG BERLANTI I wrote about real people and real circumstances and real neighborhoods. There was no crypt or castl...
RICHARD MATHESON I know that this sounds grand, but I don't try to compete with other people. I like to think the...
STEPHEN MERCHANT The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes
are the people NOTICING...
JOHN GREEN I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
ANN RICHARDS We don't need another Woody. Even Bob Dylan knew he couldn't be Woody Guthrie... I like Wood...
BUZZ OSBORNE In my horror movies, I was always trying to deal with real characters and real character drama playe...
SCOTT DERRICKSON We had just about everything people who had lost their home and personal possessions would need. And...
BUTCH KLEIN Come and meet the real super heroes, the men and women who risk their lives for you.
CHARLES BROWDER Selfish people look for success and are in great majority with good bonhomie, but others who crave f...
ANUJ SOMANY What happened to Woody Guthrie, Bob?
BOB DYLAN People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth an...
DON MIGUEL RUIZ I don't like this reality television, I have to be honest, ... I think real people should not be on ...
GARRY SHANDLING My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do...
GWYNETH PALTROW When a man is an upright contender, only real people are bound to be around; but if he is a downrigh...
ANUJ SOMANY People who care nothing for their country's stories and songs,' he said, 'are like people without a ...
ALASDAIR GRAY I'm real disappointed. I think the decisions are made by people who aren't affected. I think this co...
KATHLEEN FARRELL I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war.
RICHARD BURTON The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie dow...
BRUCE COVILLE There are a lot of people who are hungry for real leadership.
MARCY WINOGRAD Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things sho...
DARREN SHAN The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid pe...
MARJANE SATRAPI One of my songs was on a jazz station for awhile. It was a song that I wrote for a jazz sax player f...
TREVOR DONOVAN We just sang real simple songs in a simple way that got to people. We didn't try to tart them up...
MICK RALPHS We discovered these people are for real and very important,
MIKE BENDER I think there are very few people who have a real style, a real personality, and real beauty.
MARISA BERENSON Pure entertainment is not an egotistical lady singing boring songs onstage for two hours and people ...
ANDY KAUFMAN That's not FOR REAL.
DEYTH BANGER I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are th...
NATHAN GAMBLE One of the most important things to me as a songwriter is to make music that's young and fresh b...
TORI KELLY "Always love people for who they are, not for whom you like them to be." ~ Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN I've studied a lot of great people over the years - Pete Seeger, James Brown - and tried to inco...
JOHN FOGERTY I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems.
JOSH RADNOR In a story, you can turn to the front and begin again and everyone lives once more. That doesn't wor...
ALLY CONDIE The real ugliness lies in the relationship between people who produce the technology and the things ...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG Biggest musical influences would be people like Nina Simone and Tom Waits. A huge amount of writers ...
HOZIER The real achievement of Woody Allen was that he was making movies that felt very personal, and for a...
NOAH BAUMBACH Pure entertainment is not an egotistical lady singing boring songs onstage for two hours and people ...
ANDY KAUFMAN It was actually a little platform they had built for tourists or people who come to see the place, ....
KATHY SIERRA My guitar heroes are Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and people like that - so I've tried to make an ...
TODD RUNDGREN I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but...
MARGUERITE YOUNG We stand on our songs and we stand on the songs that we wrote for other people. That gives us a high...
VALERIE SIMPSON War is created by people who are too old to fight for those who are too young to die.
VIKRANT PARSAI I cannot sing the old songs I sang long years ago, For heart and voice would fail me, And foolish te...
CHARLOTTE ALINGTON BARNARD All of my heroes, like Dali, are people who pioneered various forms of cinema.
MARILYN MANSON The fact is that Tom Campbell is like you and me. He is not a career politician like Tom DeLay. He i...
MICHAEL STANLEY The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.
IRA HAYES I'm used to the security of living behind my online profiles and the clip art advertisdements I crea...
KATIE KACVINSKY I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.
TANIT PHOENIX I want people to focus on listening, not the image. And I want to play to everyone: rednecks, dubste...
STURGILL SIMPSON It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and w...
HUGO WEAVING The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely,...
MELISSA ETHERIDGE My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters b...
FORTUNE FEIMSTER I have no rules left. I don't have to get on the radio. It's wide open for me. The singer-songwriter...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actuall...
SAMANTHA BEE I always sang when I was little-bitty girl. I sang all the time. And then I'm from Knoxville, Te...
ASHLEY MONROE I, Phoebus, sang those songs that gained so much renown I, Phoebus, sang them; Homer only wrote th...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car...
MERLE HAGGARD A significant number of those who participated in the war effort were young people. People who are r...
J. CHRIS TOE Things are so deep and people are always trying to read shit into things that real simple. Some peop...
LARS ULRICH It's hard for me to see characters as villains... just heroes with competing agendas.
KIRSTEN BEYER It’s kind of creepy how logical you are. Sure you aren’t part Vulcan?
DREW HAYES We’ve gotten wind of a confluence.” Apollo set the folder on Quorum’s desk.
Quorum pulle...
DREW HAYES Try not to let them scare you too much. But, don’t forget, that they are scary people.
DREW HAYES Thus the Guild of Villainous Reformation has three new apprentices.”
Ivan resisted the urge ...
DREW HAYES I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs not...
STEVE MARTIN Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.
WAYNE ALLARD people are like music some are the real beat and some are........just noise (:
HAGAR IBRAHIM I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town...
BETTY BUCKLEY All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to the...
IO TILLETT WRIGHT Are the accomplishments that people boast about real? Probably. But I’d rather hang out with real ...
CHARLES F. GLASSMAN To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you th...
BILL MAHER His songs are inspiring, and they really inspire young people. I like that he talks about the right ...
FELIX TORRES Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
TOM WAITS They are the real heroes.
LEE WOODLAND I know there are a lot of musicians and a lot of artists, and there are a lot of writers and other p...
JOHN F. KERRY The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the peop...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Mortals search for what they are unable to give, what they lack within themselves.
EMMA RAVELING She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate obser...
J.D. SALINGER Since meeting with Mr. Pym was the responsibility of the current Lord Ramsay, Cam bullied Leo into a...
LISA KLEYPAS Father said I have no sense of humor at all. He said I was unequipped to meet life because I have no...
J.D. SALINGER You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all ...
J.D. SALINGER He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.
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TOM JONES We are set to make very bad history.
TOM WILSON These days an income is something you can't live without - or within.
TOM WILSON If I had a nickel for every time I said 'Why me?' I'd have probably said 'Why me?...
TOM WILSON What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience.
TOM WILSON The waist is a terrible thing to mind.
TOM WILSON Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
TOM WILSON If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've l...
TOM WILSON Many of us are more capable than some of us... but none of us is as capable as all of us!
TOM WILSON Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.
TOM WILSON There's no future in spending our present worrying about our past.
TOM WILSON Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow.
TOM WILSON About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
TOM WILSON If I ever had an out-of-body experience - I'd try to come back to a different one.
TOM WILSON I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while.
TOM WILSON Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.
TOM WILSON A smile is a facelift that's in everyone's price range!
TOM WILSON Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.
TOM WOLFE It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
TOM STOPPARD