Utah Phillips

Person · Open Library

Works

3

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1935

Active to

2008

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

30,039

Total plays

548,958

Bruce "Utah" Phillips (b. May 15, 1935 in Cleveland, Ohio; d. May 23, 2008 in Nevada City, Calif.) was a labor organizer, folk singer, songwriter, storyteller, poet and self-described "Golden Voice of the Great Southwest". He described the struggles of working people, labor unions and the power of direct action. He often promoted the Industrial Workers of the World in his music, actions, and words. His original songs include the often-covered "Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia" and "Rock sal

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment, MoCA: A Brief Screening Tool For Mild Cognitive Impairment

   · 2005 · cited 21,381x

2. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,412x

3. Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant

   · 1998 · cited 16,036x

4. Scalable molecular dynamics with NAMD

   · 2005 · cited 15,769x

5. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,393x

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Quotes

• “I'm here to change the world, and if I am not, I am probably wasting my time.”
• “As I have said so often before, the long memory is the most radical idea in America…."”
• “But they lived those extraordinary lives that can never be lived again. And in the living of them, they gave me a history that is more profound, more beautiful, more powerful, more passionate, and ultimately more useful, than the best damn history book I ever read.”
• “I coulda got mad. But then I had to stop and think, well, what did he get in school? What did he get in his work experience? What did he get even from his own union, that gave him some tools to understand what he was seeing on that television?”
• “Talking to a conservative is like talking to your refrigerator... You know, the light goes on, the light goes off; it's not going to do anything that isn't built into it... And I'm not going to talk to a conservative anymore than I talk to my damn refrigerator.”
• “I coulda got mad. But then I had to stop and think, well, what did he get in school? What did he get in his work experience? What did he get even from his own union, that gave him some tools to understand what he was seeing?”

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Wikidata facts

Official website

thelongmemory.com

Image

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