Woody Guthrie Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• 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.

• 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

• You can't write a good song about a whorehouse unless you've been in one.

  Woody Guthrie

  Song, Writing

• 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.

• 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

• My eyes has been my camera taking pictures of the world and my songs has been my messages that I tried to scatter across the back sides and along the steps of the fire escapes and on the window sills and through the dark halls.

  Woody Guthrie

  Song, Eye, Dark

  "Bound For Glory". Book by Woody Guthrie, 1943.

• 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

• 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. Theirs, the wasted songs of a superstitious nightmare. And without their music and ideological miscarriages to compare our songs of freedom to, we'd not have any opposite to compare music with - - and like the drifting wind, hitting against no obstacle, we'd never know its speed, its power.

  Woody Guthrie

  Song, Miscarriage, Wind

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

• I have decided long ago that my songs and ballads would not get the hugs and kisses of the capitalistic experts.

  Woody Guthrie

  Song, Kissing, Long Ago

  Woody Guthrie, Dave Marsh, Harold Leventhal (1990). “Pastures of plenty: a self-portrait”, HarperCollins Publishers

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