Top 47 Woody Guthrie Quotes
#1. Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.
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#4. If we fix it so's you can't make money on war, we'll all forget what we're killing folks for.
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#5. If you play more than two chords, you're showing off.
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#6. Anyone who uses more than two chords is just showing off.
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#7. The best way to get to know any bunch of people is to go and listen to their music.
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#8. It's round the world I've traveled; it's round the world I've roamed; but I've yet to see an outlaw drive a family from its home
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#10. Nobody living can ever stop me. As I go walking my freedom highway. Nobody living can make me turn back. This land was made for you and me.
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#11. All about a human being is, it's a great big hoping machine.
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#12. Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.
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#13. Now as through this world I ramble, I see lots of funny men, Some rob you with a six gun, And some with a fountain pen.
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#15. I ain't a Communist necessarily, but I have been in the red all my life.
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#16. I love a good man outside the law, just as much as I hate a bad man inside the law.
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#17. Life has a habit of not staying hitched. You got to ride it like you find it.
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#18. I better quit my talking 'cause I told you all I know But please remember, pardner, wherever you may go The people are building a peaceful world, and when the job is done, That'll be the biggest thing that man has ever done.
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#19. I worked in your orchards of peaches and prunes. I slept on the ground in the light of the moon. On the edge of the city you'll see us and then, we come with the dust and we go with the wind.
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#20. I know the police cause you trouble They cause trouble everywhere But when you die and go to heaven You find no policeman there
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#21. I like to write about wherever I happen to be.
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#22. 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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#23. 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.
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#24. Anyone who used more than three chords is just showing off.
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#25. As I went walking That ribbon of highway I saw above me The endless skyway I saw below me The lonesome valley This land was made for you and me.
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#26. 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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#28. 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.
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#29. I got started in Oklahoma. That's where I was born. Population down there is one-third Indians, one-third Negroes and one-third white people.
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#30. 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.
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#31. 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.
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#32. It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people
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#33. Let me be known as just the man that told you something you already knew.
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#35. Do Re Mi
California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see,
But believe it or not, you won't find it so hot
If you ain't got the do re mi
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#36. Some men rob you with a six-gun
others rob you with a fountain pen.
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#38. I have decided long ago that my songs and ballads would not get the hugs and kisses of the capitalistic experts.
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#39. You can't write a good song about a whorehouse unless you've been in one.
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#40. One day we'll all find out that all of our songs was just little notes in a great big song!
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#41. If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story.
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#42. 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 ...
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#43. Uncle Sam took up the challenge in the year of '33 For the farmer and the factory and all of you and me. He said, "Roll along Columbia. You can ramble to the sea, But river while you're ramblin' you can do some work for me."
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#44. The words are the important thing. Don't worry about tunes. Take a tune, sing high when they sing low, sing fast when they sing slow, and you've got a new tune.
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#45. A song ain't nothing but a conversation fixed up to where you can talk it over and over without getting tired of it.
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#46. 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.
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#47. One bright sunny morning in the shadow of the steeple, by the Relief Office, I saw my people -As they stood hungry, I stood there wondering if God blessed America for me.
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