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11 quotes by Utah Phillips

Bruce Duncan "Utah" Phillips (May 15, 1935 – May 23, 2008) was an American labor organizer, folk singer, storyteller, poet and the "Golden Voice of the Great Southwest". He described the struggles of labor unions and the power of direct action, self-identifying as an anarchist. He often promoted the Industrial Workers of the World in his music, actions, and words.
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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.... →

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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.

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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.

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What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.

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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... →

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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... →

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It is better to be likable than to be talented.

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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.

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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