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

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

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

I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie. — Gordon Lightfoot

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Woody Guthrie was what folks who don't believe in anything would call an anomaly. — Steve Earle

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

Anyone who uses more than two chords is just showing off. — Woody Guthrie

A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song. — John Mellencamp

It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people — Woody Guthrie

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

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

If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story. — Woody Guthrie

Left wing, right wing, chicken wing. — Woody Guthrie

In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie. — Bob Dylan

If you play more than two chords, you're showing off. — Woody Guthrie

Love is the only medicine I believe in. — 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

Some men rob you with a six-gun
others rob you with a fountain pen. — Woody Guthrie

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

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

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

I played around our yard some and talked to the fence posts, sung songs and made the weeds sing ... - WOODY GUTHRIE — Richard Louv

All of you cowboys, fight for your land. — Woody Guthrie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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