Woody Guthrie (Woodrow Wilson Guthrie) Quotes
It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people
Woody Guthrie
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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.
Woody Guthrie
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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
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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
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Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.
Woody Guthrie
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Some men rob you with a six-gun -- others rob you with a fountain pen.
Woody Guthrie
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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
