All of you cowboys, fight for your land.
--Woody Guthrie
All you can write is what you see.
--Woody Guthrie
Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.
--Woody Guthrie
Anyone who uses more than two chords is just showing off.
--Woody Guthrie
Civilization is spread more by singing than by anything else, because whole big bunches can sing a particular song where not every man can join in on the same conversation.
--Woody Guthrie
I ain't a Communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life.
--Woody Guthrie
I have hoped as many hopes and dreamed so many dreams, seen them swept aside by weather, and blown away by men, washed away in my own mistakes, that- I use to wonder if it wouldn't be better just to haul off and quit hoping.
--Woody Guthrie
I love a good man outside the law, just as much as I hate a bad man inside the law.
--Woody Guthrie
If the fight gets hot, the songs get hotter. If the going gets tough, the songs get tougher.
--Woody Guthrie
If we would just take the profit out of war, there wouldn't be any.
--Woody Guthrie
Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.
--Woody Guthrie
Let me be known as just the man that told you something you already knew.
--Woody Guthrie
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.
--Woody Guthrie
Life is this sound, and since creation has been a song. And there is no real trick of creating words to set to music, once you realize that the word is the music and the people are the song.
--Woody Guthrie
Looks like ever body is declaring war against the forces of force. That's what you get for building up a big war machine.
--Woody Guthrie
Love is the only God that I'll ever believe in.
--Woody Guthrie
Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns.
--Woody Guthrie
Take it easy, but take it.
--Woody Guthrie
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
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.
--Woody Guthrie
This land is made for you and me.
--Woody Guthrie
This machine kills fascists.
(label on his guitar).
--Woody Guthrie
Watch the kids. Do like they do. Act like they act. Yell like they yell. Dance the way you see them dance. Sing like they sing. Work and rest the way kids do... I don't want the kids to be grownup. I want to see the grown folks be kids.
--Woody Guthrie
What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us.
--Jim Hightower
Yes, as through this world I've wandered I've seen lots of funny men; Some will rob you with a six-gun, And some with a fountain pen.
--Woody Guthrie
You might say that Wall Street is the street that keeps you off Easy Street.
--Woody Guthrie
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