Utah Phillips Professions : Singer Born : May 15, 1935 Died : May 23, 2008 Browse All Authors Top 32 quotes by Utah Phillips Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen. Utah Phillips best-performance poet performances It is better to be likable than to be talented. Utah Phillips likable talented than better Oh, mercy, I think we're all storytellers, you know. You think of the excuses you told your parents for why you got home late. I just never gave it up. Utah Phillips parents think you home It's nice to know there are some things in early 21st-century post-industrial culture that don't change very fast. I am one of those. Utah Phillips i-am nice change culture I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance. Utah Phillips friends wealth power fame What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist. Utah Phillips learned really how army 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 paying any money. Utah Phillips looking place money work When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn't begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits. Utah Phillips city myself you world The most important movement in the world is the feminist movement. If we can really figure out what's going on between men and women, the other problems will take care of themselves. I'm sure of it. Utah Phillips problems women men world When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend, Norman Ritchie, the traveling teenage sage, started calling me U. Utah Phillips. Utah Phillips me learning music love I created my own party. It's called the Sloth and Indolence Party, and I'm running as an anarchist candidate in the best sense of that word. I've studied the presidency carefully. Utah Phillips own best my-own party I have seen that our best presidents were the do-nothing presidents: Millard Fillmore, Warren G. Harding. When you have a president who does things, we are all in serious trouble. If he does anything at all, if he gets up at night to go the bathroom, somehow, mystically, trouble will ensue. Utah Phillips best you serious night Similar Authors Bert McCracken singer Betty Carter singer Bing Crosby singer Brian Fallon singer Brooke Allison singer Brook Benton singer All Authors