"A Chicago Legend. Chicago's Phil Ochs" - Mike Pecucci - Letterbomb 2020
"Chicago's Utah Phillips" (from the tour audience 2017)
" In some way you had me wanting to go and pull out a collection of Langston Hughes.." -(from the audience at the Forward Wisconsin Fest, Barrymore Theater Madison, Wisconsin)
"Chicago's Utah Phillips" (from the tour audience 2017)
" In some way you had me wanting to go and pull out a collection of Langston Hughes.." -(from the audience at the Forward Wisconsin Fest, Barrymore Theater Madison, Wisconsin)
"If you fail at anything for long enough, you become a legend" - Willie Nelson
by Tali Farchi
"A fellow ain't got a soul of his own, just little piece of a big soul, the one big soul that belongs to everybody. ... I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad. I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready, and when the people are eatin' the stuff they raise and livin' in the houses they build - I'll be there, too. " Tom Joad - Grapes of Wrath
"If Ralph Peer were alive today, it is without doubt that he and Mike Felten would've teamed up" -Bob Everhart
"If you were any good you would've been signed in the 1970's" - the late Allen Woody (Gov't Mule/Allman Brothers)
"It is like, unexpectedly, coming across a dead body" - Landfill purchaser
"He's no Bob Dylan" - Bill Glahn (Live! Music Review)
'He's no Roman Candle" -Phil Schlichting (Record Emporium/HS senior)"
You're no Jack Kennedy" -Lloyd Bentsen"
Folksy tone feebly masks a mean spiritedness...a beat down old soul" - Citizen Wayne Kramer (MC5/Muscletone recording artist)
"No one wants new music by ANYBODY over forty." - Bob Lefsetz (he was talking about Sheryl Crow but Mike's hair isn't half as nice).
Step aside Jesus, There's a new man for the cross" -Paul M.O.T.O. Caporino
WORDS WE ARE LIVING BY
"I don't have to be what you want me to be" - Muhammad Ali
"You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists." - Abbie Hoffman.
"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting."-Bukowski
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - George Orwell
"In a mass marketing culture, a revolutionary song is any song that you choose to sing yourself." - Utah Phillips
"One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community." - Albert Einstein
"Freedom is what prohibition ain't" - Merle Haggard
"Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows" -Martin Luther King
"The freedom of hearing is as important as the freedom of speaking" - Tommy Smothers
"I'm in love with everyone & everything, even garbage cans and thunder."
Lucy Kenevan, age 3
When Woody Guthrie was singing hillbilly songs on a little Los Angeles radio station in the late 1930s, he used to mail out a small mimeographed songbook to listeners who wanted the words to his songs, On the bottom of one page appeared the following:"This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do."
"If you were any good you would've been signed in the 1970's" - the late Allen Woody (Gov't Mule/Allman Brothers)
"It is like, unexpectedly, coming across a dead body" - Landfill purchaser
"He's no Bob Dylan" - Bill Glahn (Live! Music Review)
'He's no Roman Candle" -Phil Schlichting (Record Emporium/HS senior)"
You're no Jack Kennedy" -Lloyd Bentsen"
Folksy tone feebly masks a mean spiritedness...a beat down old soul" - Citizen Wayne Kramer (MC5/Muscletone recording artist)
"No one wants new music by ANYBODY over forty." - Bob Lefsetz (he was talking about Sheryl Crow but Mike's hair isn't half as nice).
Step aside Jesus, There's a new man for the cross" -Paul M.O.T.O. Caporino
WORDS WE ARE LIVING BY
"I don't have to be what you want me to be" - Muhammad Ali
"You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists." - Abbie Hoffman.
"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting."-Bukowski
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - George Orwell
"In a mass marketing culture, a revolutionary song is any song that you choose to sing yourself." - Utah Phillips
"One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community." - Albert Einstein
"Freedom is what prohibition ain't" - Merle Haggard
"Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows" -Martin Luther King
"The freedom of hearing is as important as the freedom of speaking" - Tommy Smothers
"I'm in love with everyone & everything, even garbage cans and thunder."
Lucy Kenevan, age 3
When Woody Guthrie was singing hillbilly songs on a little Los Angeles radio station in the late 1930s, he used to mail out a small mimeographed songbook to listeners who wanted the words to his songs, On the bottom of one page appeared the following:"This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do."
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