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Woody Guthrie Inspirational Quotes (52)

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I ain't a communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life.
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The words are the important thing. Don't worry about tunes. Take a tune, sing high when they sing low, sing fast when they sing slow, and you've got a new tune.
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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.
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My eyes has been my camera taking pictures of the world and my songs has been my messages that I tried to scatter across the back sides and along the steps of the fire escapes and on the window sills and through the dark halls.
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Okemah was one of the singingest, square dancingest, drinkingest, yellingest, preachingest, walkingest, talkingest, laughingest, cryingest, shootingest, fist fightingest, bleedingest, gamblingest, gun, club and razor carryingest of our ranch towns and farm towns, because it blossomed out into one of our first Oil Boom Towns.
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This land is made for you and me.
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Life's pretty tough . . . you're lucky if you live through it.
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All you can write is what you see.
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I like to write about wherever I happen to be.
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I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that.
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One day we'll all find out that all of our songs was just little notes in a great big song!
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I love a good man outside the law, just as much as I hate a bad man inside the law.
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This land is your land, this land is my land
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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.
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A folk song is what's wrong and how to fix it or it could be who's hungry and where their mouth is or who's out of work and where the job is or who's broke and where the money is or who's carrying a gun and where the peace is.
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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.
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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.
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I worked in your orchards of peaches and prunes. I slept on the ground in the light of the moon. On the edge of the city you'll see us and then, we come with the dust and we go with the wind.
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All of you cowboys, fight for your land.
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If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story.
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Life has a habit of not staying hitched. You got to ride it like you find it.
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Take it easy, but take it.
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As I went walking I saw a sign there And on the sign it said No Trespassing. But on the other side it didn't say nothing, That side was made for you and me. This land is your land, this land is my land From California to the New York island From the Redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me.
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Left wing. Right wing. Chicken wing.
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