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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
Democracy doesn't begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls 'The Patriot's Dream. — Bill Moyers
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. — Woody Guthrie
MAKE ME AN ANGEL THAT FLIES FROM MONTGOMERY, MAKE ME A POSTER OF AN OLD RODEO JUST GIVE ME ONE THING THAT I CAN HOLD ON TO TO BELIEVE IN THIS LIVIN' IS JUST A HARD WAY TO GO. — John Prine
Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts. — O. Henry
My way of life
Is fall'n into the sear and yellow leaf. — William Shakespeare
How many roads must a man walk down? — Douglas Adams
You may bury my body down by the highway side. So my old evil spirit can catch a Greyhound bus and ride. — Robert Johnson
It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people — Woody Guthrie
Lord knows I've paid my dues getting through, tangled up in blue. — Bob Dylan
How many roads must a man walk down.. Before you can call him a Man. — Bob Dylan
I subscribe to that school of thespian - to be a wandering minstrel or traveling player, a thing of rags and patches, of ballads, songs and snatches. — Julian Sands
No other road, no other way, No day but today! — Jonathan Larson
Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside is human. — Robert Burns
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! — Dr. Seuss
Short Guthrie Quotes
I have two mini huskies called Woody Guthrie and Edison Guthrie. — Dhani Harrison
Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today. — Billy Bragg
Woody Guthrie was what folks who don't believe in anything would call an anomaly. — Steve Earle
I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie. — Gordon Lightfoot
I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder? — Robert E. Howard
The spirit of Woody Guthrie lives in the heart of
Chris Chandler. — Peter Yarrow
In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie. — Bob Dylan
It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car. — Merle Haggard
You could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live. — Bob Dylan
What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing. — Justin Townes Earle
Renaissance cowboy/raconteur Pop Wagner ...deadpan funny ...his presence is like meeting Woody Guthrie and Will Rogers riding a single, many colored horse. Pop is a kind of 'textile genius' who is able to spin, at once, both yarn and rope. — Ron Miles
If Woody Guthrie set the bar for American songwriters, Bob Dylan jumped right over it. No one I know will ever come close to possessing the beauty of melody and the use of language that Dylan shares with us, with ease. — John Mellencamp
Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me. — Fred Melamed
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
Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger - could be as heavy as anything that comes through a Marshall stack. The combination of three chords and the right lyrical couplet can be as heavy as anything in the Metallica catalogue. — Tom Morello
Here was this man Tom Guthrie in Holt standing at the back window in the kitchen of his house smoking cigarettes and looking out over the back lot where the sun was just coming up. — Kent Haruf
I got a phone call from Douglas Campbell and from Jerome Guthrie, who offered me a job out of the blue. — Jeffrey Jones
My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in between. — Tom Chapin
I think when people think of music from coming from Oklahoma, they think of Toby Keith or even Garth Brooks or even Woody Guthrie. People think, "Why do we have to just be about the Bible and about football? Why can't we be about something like the Flaming Lips?" And I salute them! I say, "Well, that's great if you want that." — Wayne Coyne
When I was learning to write I was surrounded by poets; Brian Blanchfield and Annie Guthrie were always with me as I was learning. I'm so grateful for the poets in my life. Because of them I always knew the importance of each word, line. — Samantha Hunt
I did admire the comments and the music of Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. And that didn't fly too well in the Deep South. It was not quite redneck enough. — Steve Young
After an initial solo album in which the young [Bob] Dylan was just finding his voice (i.e., reinventing himself from the middle-class Robert Zimmerman into a pseudo-hobo Woody Guthrie), Dylan put out two acoustic albums that forever changed popular music. — Jay Michaelson
Celtic music is part of the language in Scotland and Ireland, where every kid and grandparent knows those songs, music by the likes of Woody Guthrie and Hank Snow is getting entrenched here. They are part of our cultural language. It's part of a living treasure. It doesn't just belong to a museum. — Rosanne Cash
I was a working-class kid from Boston. But I never lost my accent because I felt like that was what I was doing. I didn't have to perform Woody Guthrie like Bob Dylan did in the '60s, I just had to make myself be Eileen Myles and let that be my shield. — Eileen Myles
I always knew that sooner or later there would come somebody like Woody Guthrie who could make a great song every week. Dylan certainly had a social agenda, but he was such a good poet that most of his attempts were head and shoulders above things that I and others were trying to do. ... If I had an address, I'd send him a birthday card saying, 'keep on going.' — Pete Seeger
I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers. — Neil Diamond
I came along and was a teenager in the Depression, and nobody had jobs. So I went out hitchhiking, when I met a man named Woody Guthrie. He was the single biggest part of my education. — Pete Seeger
I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song. — Black Francis
The Gulf Stream waters of Woody Guthrie's famous song were strung with columns of oil that were several miles long. — James Lee
You'll find God in the church of your choice, you'll find Woody Guthrie in the Brooklyn State Hospital. — Bob Dylan
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
My best songs were written very quickly. Just about as much time as it takes to write it down is about as long as it takes to write it...In writing songs I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie...It's not me, it's the songs. I'm just the postman, I deliver the songs...I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet. — Bob Dylan
when i reached the bottom, i finally understood what Guthrie meant when he shouted, "LIBERO!" It was a celebration of being alive — Sharon Creech
the fact that they stole their whole shtick from Woody Guthrie and the coal-mining bards. While the alternative nation meows about personal fashion angst, the Appalachian nation still sings about unemployment. — Jim Goad
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
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