Utah Phillips Quotes

The Drifter was this guy where I'd put a guitar on my shoulder and walk from town to town, find my way however I can, whether it's hitchhiking, on a bus, walking, whatever I've gotta do.

My hair is way, way long. I've hitchhiked across the country a zillion times. I've ridden in every car. I was never a hippie. It takes more than long hair.

I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.

I've been on the road I think probably three years.

I'm going to be on the road for the rest of my life.

You could say I'm a bit of a nomad.

I don't really live anywhere.

I actually don't live anywhere. I live on the road.

You know me - I'm the road dog of road dogs.

I'm always on the road.

I'm a drifter. I go where the wind blows.

Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you?

A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.

The thing is, I'm a gypsy; I love travelling!

I own nothing; I just stay with friends all over the country.

I'm a wandering gypsy.

I don't have a home. I'm on the road, more or less.

My father was a good man, but he was a con man. He was a wanderer, nomadic.

At 17, I traveled to Mexico in a lemon yellow Mustang and saved money by bunking down in cheap, cockroach-infested flophouses. In my early 20s, I went on to thumb rides through Europe, readily sleeping in train stations, my backpack as a pillow. Once I even hunkered down for a night on a sidewalk grate - for warmth - in Paris.

I live out of my suitcase and I'm happy to do so.

I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.

I'm the gypsy man. I don't really live anywhere. I've got a roof over my head in Los Angeles, and I've got a lot of friends everywhere.

When I was 19 years old, I hitchhiked across the country to San Francisco.

I am a traveler. I am a nomad. I rarely sleep in the same bed more than three or four nights. And I know hotel life better than anyone.

I'm a nomad.