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I got a phone call from Douglas Campbell and from Jerome Guthrie, who offered me a job out of the blue. — Jeffrey Jones

Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world. — Thomas Guthrie

If you want to learn something, just steal it. — Woody Guthrie

The new novel is sought more eagerly, and devoured more greedily, the New Testament. — Thomas Guthrie

I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers. — Neil Diamond

Nouns and verbs are the guts of the language. Beware of covering up with adjectives and adverbs. — A.B. Guthrie Jr.

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car. — Merle Haggard

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. — Woody Guthrie

Astonish me in the morning! — Tyrone Guthrie

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

Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, he must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, must be a pacifist. What's in that pipe that he's smoking? — Arlo Guthrie

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 — Woody Guthrie

We went back, afterward, after the show was over that night, I took my kids backstage and said, You know what? I know my dad's songs ... — Arlo Guthrie

Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do? — Thomas Guthrie

The Gulf Stream waters of Woody Guthrie's famous song were strung with columns of oil that were several miles long. — James Lee Burke

Recession, terrorism, debts, political turmoil, disease, famine, mortality... screw it, I'm putting googly eyes on things. — Charles R.L. Guthrie

I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song. — Frank Black

There's only one God. Call him whatever you want. — Arlo Guthrie

I like to write about wherever I happen to be. — Woody Guthrie

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in. — Arlo Guthrie

You teach kids how to succeed when they successfully foil the educational system. — Arlo Guthrie

I thought I would be governor of Massachusetts. I stood on a pile of my old albums and said, 'I'm the only one with a record to stand on.' — Arlo Guthrie

You drive the car, you don't carry it. — Janet Guthrie

Racing is a calling, a passion. — Janet Guthrie

The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head. — Alfred Bertram Guthrie

Anyone who used more than three chords is just showing off. — Woody Guthrie

Work can only be universal if it is rooted in a part of its creator which is most privately and particularly himself. — Tyrone Guthrie

I should get a manicure more often. — Savannah Guthrie

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

All you can write is what you see. — Woody Guthrie

Let me be known as just the man that told you something you already knew. — Woody Guthrie

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. — Woody Guthrie

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. — Woody Guthrie

This machine kills fascists. — Woody Guthrie

The wheel may be turning, but the hamster is DEAD! — Georgina Guthrie

I would never put my job before my family. — Savannah Guthrie

My 3am wake up call sounds a lot different now. Sweeter ... — Savannah Guthrie

Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today. — Billy Bragg

Yes, I was born in Coney Island. The Holy Land. — Arlo Guthrie

The work that is done in love loses half its tedium and difficulty. — Thomas Guthrie

I left the entertainment industry part of my life behind in 1983, when we decided not to work with major record companies anymore. — Arlo Guthrie

Along with a sense of humor, my songs have to be sincere, and they have to be sung from a position of inner conviction. — Arlo Guthrie

The finest flowers of genius have grown in an atmosphere where those of Nature are prone to droop, and difficult to bring to maturity. — Thomas Guthrie

I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first encountered Woody Guthrie. — Bruce Springsteen

What's in that pipe that he's smoking? — Arlo Guthrie

Prayer flies where the eagle never flew. — Thomas Guthrie

Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens. — Alfred Bertram Guthrie

I don't want a pickle, just want to ride on my motorsickle. — Arlo Guthrie

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted. — Arlo Guthrie

Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me. — Woody Guthrie

More tears are shed in playhouses than in churches. — Thomas Guthrie

I've written quite a variety of songs, everything from kids songs to political satire, and my dad covered a fairly large range, also. — Arlo Guthrie

I froze in time! And I thought My God ... I'm free! — Arlo Guthrie

The hope of immortality makes heroes of cowards. — Thomas Guthrie

Be serious. Folk songs are serious. That's what Pete Seeger told me. Arlo, I only wanna tell you one thing. Folk songs are serious. And I said Right. — Arlo Guthrie

Life has a habit of not staying hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. — Woody Guthrie

I have two mini huskies called Woody Guthrie and Edison Guthrie. — Dhani Harrison

All about a human being is, it's a great big hoping machine. — Woody Guthrie

But I also think that once you've found stuff that works, stop reading forums, stop reading reviews and just get out there and play. — Guthrie Govan

Perserverance: Outlasting the most rash, pessimistic, cowardly naysayers; those first in line to deny us the dreams never tried. Ourselves. — R.S. Guthrie

Don't be precious about anything-much less a certain guitar sound. There is always another interesting sound or effect just waiting to be discovered. — Robin Guthrie

Everyone has troubles. Finding yourself in the same boat with everyone else is the first sign of spirituality. — Arlo Guthrie

Genius is often mistaken for idiocy, when perception is blurred by conformity — Jerry Guthrie

I've been singing this song now for twenty five minutes. I could sing it for another twenty five minutes. I'm not proud ... or tired. — Arlo Guthrie

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living. — Arlo Guthrie

Sailors didn't train for hurricanes, because they weren't supposed to be in hurricanes. — Julian Guthrie

Songs are like fish. You just gotta have your line in the water. And it's a bad idea to fish downstream from Bob Dylan. — Arlo Guthrie

I ain't a Communist necessarily, but I have been in the red all my life. — Woody Guthrie

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength. — Janet Guthrie

This land is made for you and me. — Woody Guthrie

Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind. — Bob Dylan

You could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live ... — Bob Dylan

Speed is a byproduct of good, slow practice. — Guthrie Govan

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

Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed. — Arlo Guthrie

But think of the last guy. For one minute, think of the last guy. Nobody's got it worse than that guy. Nobody in the whole world. — Arlo Guthrie

Good enough is never good enough. — Alfred Bertram Guthrie

If you steal from one person is Theft, and if you steal from Lots of people is Research — Guthrie Govan

I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do. — John Hawkes

It's about the time I was riding my Motorcycle, going down a mountain road at 150 miles an hour, playing my guitar. — Arlo Guthrie

I'd rather have friends who care than friends who agree with me. — Arlo Guthrie

Speak, fair; but speak fair words, or else be mute: — Georgina Guthrie

The spirit of Woody Guthrie lives in the heart of
Chris Chandler. — Peter Yarrow

Whatever you've learned becomes truly useful to you only once it has become second nature. — Guthrie Govan

As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. — Thomas Guthrie

Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system. — Thomas Guthrie

I know the police cause you trouble They cause trouble everywhere But when you die and go to heaven You find no policeman there — Woody Guthrie

Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault. — Arlo Guthrie

You'll find God in the church of your choice, you'll find Woody Guthrie in the Brooklyn State Hospital. — Bob Dylan

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

I don't do anything on stage that allows me to become a trained seal, where you're just doing the same thing over and over. — Arlo Guthrie

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. — Woody Guthrie

I don't want a pickle, I just want ride on my motorcikle. I don't want to die, I just want a ride on my motorcy ... cle. — Arlo Guthrie

If you want to end war and stuff, you gotta sing loud. — Arlo Guthrie

A sunny temper [an attitude of gratitude for what blessings and mercies there are] gilds the edges of life's blackest cloud. — Thomas Guthrie

We had a great time on the bench talking about crime, mother-stabbin', father raping, all kinds of groovy things. — Arlo Guthrie

The most profound, life-altering gift you can offer the Indie writer you love is to TELL as MANY avid readers as you are able. — R.S. Guthrie

Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple. — Woody Guthrie

Being famous is not the same as being important. A lot of important people aren't famous, and a lot of famous people aren't important. — Arlo Guthrie

I never have any clothes to go out in, because I always just buy for work. I don't know why. Habit. — Savannah Guthrie