If readers understand that they do not understand what they are reading then they must possess an understanding which is superior to the meaning which caused that misunderstanding. Arlo Guthrie More Quotes by Arlo Guthrie More Quotes From Arlo Guthrie Thank God that the people that run this world are not smart enough to keep running it forever. You know, everybody gets a handle on it for a little while. Arlo Guthrie you thank-god god people I don't do anything on stage that allows me to become a trained seal, where you're just doing the same thing over and over. Arlo Guthrie doing me you stage My only description for me is that there's no throwaway people. That's the creed that I live by. It doesn't matter if I'm singing or not. That's the kind of person that my father and mother wanted me to be. The end obligation is to make people feel good about who they are. Arlo Guthrie good me mother father My mother had introduced me to a lot of my father's friends because she believed that I would get to know the guy my dad was better through his friends than just in the hospital visits. Arlo Guthrie me dad mother father People were talking about songs of the common man in order to make the common man. With Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, they were so common it was just uncommon. Arlo Guthrie just man talking people My dad's songs were really written to make certain people feel as though they had some kind of value. Because they were told from where they work and from the countries they had immigrated from that they did not. Arlo Guthrie feel dad work people With the advent of radio and recording, music became an industry rather than just a tradition. Arlo Guthrie just tradition radio music At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war movement was happening, the ban the bomb movement was happening, the environmental movement was happening. There was suddenly a generation ready to change the course of history. Arlo Guthrie environmental change time history Yes, I was born in Coney Island. The Holy Land. Arlo Guthrie i-was-born island born land