Woody Guthrie Quotes

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• It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people

  Woody Guthrie

  Jobs, People, Comforting

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• I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and set down at the side of some shady lane, and say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns.

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  Peace, War, Fighting

  Woody Guthrie (1975). “Woody Sez”

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• Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.

  Woody Guthrie

  Simple, Genius, Fool

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• Some men rob you with a six-gun -- others rob you with a fountain pen.

  Woody Guthrie

  Funny, Gun, Men

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• I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work. And the songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you.

  Woody Guthrie

  Song, Pride, Color

  "Prophet Singer: The Voice And Vision of Woody Guthrie". Book by Mark Allan Jackson, 2007.

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  The best way to get to know any bunch of people is to go and listen to their music.

  Woody Guthrie

  People, Way, Bunch

  Woody Guthrie (1975). “Woody Sez”

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• If we fix it so's you can't make money on war, we'll all forget what we're killing folks for.

  Woody Guthrie

  War, Forget, Making Money

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  The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine.

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  Fall, Machines, Helping

  Woody Guthrie, Dave Marsh, Harold Leventhal (1992). “Pastures of plenty: a self-portrait”, Perennial

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• Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

  Woody Guthrie

  Change, Trying, Cows

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• I love a good man outside the law, just as much as I hate a bad man inside the law.

  Woody Guthrie

  Hate, Men, Law

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• Take it easy, but take it.

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  Philosophy, Easy, Take It Easy

  Woody Guthrie (1983). “Bound for Glory”, p.145, Penguin

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• Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.

  Woody Guthrie

  Wall, Opportunity, Sides

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• Life's pretty tough . . . you're lucky if you live through it.

  Woody Guthrie

  Lucky, Tough, Ifs

  Woody Guthrie (2013). “House of Earth”, p.6, HarperCollins UK

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• There's several ways of saying what's on your mind. And in states and counties where it ain't too healthy to talk too loud, speak your mind, or even vote like you want to, folks have found other ways of getting the word around. One of the mainest ways is by singing.

  Woody Guthrie

  Speak Your Mind, Healthy, Singing

  Woody Guthrie, Dave Marsh, Harold Leventhal (1992). “Pastures of plenty: a self-portrait”, Perennial

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• The world is filled with people who are no longer needed -- and who try to make slaves of all of us -- and they have their music and we have ours.

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  People, Trying, World

  Woody Guthrie, Dave Marsh, Harold Leventhal (1992). “Pastures of plenty: a self-portrait”, Perennial

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• One day we'll all find out that all of our songs was just little notes in a great big song!

  Woody Guthrie

  Song, One Day, Littles

  Woody Guthrie, Dave Marsh, Harold Leventhal (1992). “Pastures of plenty: a self-portrait”, Perennial

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• Love is the only medicine I believe in.

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  Believe, Love Is, Medicine

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• Anyone who used more than three chords is just showing off.

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  Guitar, Three, Used

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• As I went walking I saw a sign there And on the sign it said "No Trespassing." But on the other side it didn't say nothing, That side was made for you and me. This land is your land, this land is my land From California to the New York island From the Redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me.

  Woody Guthrie

  New York, Journey, Islands

  "This Land Is Your Land" (song) (1956)

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• Let me be known as just the man that told you something you already knew.

  Woody Guthrie

  Men, He Man, Let Me

  Woody Guthrie (1975). “Woody Sez”

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• All you can write is what you see.

  Woody Guthrie

  Writing

  Woody Guthrie (2013). “House of Earth”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that.

  Woody Guthrie

  Song, Hate, Crazy

  "Prophet Singer: The Voice And Vision of Woody Guthrie". Book by Mark Allan Jackson, 2007.

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• A folk song is what's wrong and how to fix it or it could be
  who's hungry and where their mouth is or
  who's out of work and where the job is or
  who's broke and where the money is or
  who's carrying a gun and where the peace is.

  Woody Guthrie

  Song, Jobs, Gun

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• A song ain't nothing but a conversation fixed up to where you can talk it over and over without getting tired of it.

  Woody Guthrie

  Music, Song, Tired

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• Now as I look around, it's mighty plain to see,
  This world is such a great and a funny place to be.
  Oh, the gamblin' man is rich, an' the workin' man is poor,
  And I ain't got no home in this world anymore.

  Woody Guthrie

  Home, Men, Looks

  Song: I Ain't Got No Home In This World Anymore

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