Quotes About Phil Ochs

The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.

In the town of Bethlehem many years ago, a man got religion and he changed the status quo.

Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger - could be as heavy as anything that comes through a Marshall stack. The combination of three chords and the right lyrical couplet can be as heavy as anything in the Metallica catalogue.