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If you want to learn something, just steal it.
Woody Guthrie
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Woody Guthrie
Age: 55 †
Born: 1912
Born: July 14
Died: 1967
Died: October 3
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I like to write about wherever I happen to be.
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I ain't a communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life.
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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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All about a human being is, it's a great big hoping machine.
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If we fix it so's you can't make money on war, we'll all forget what we're killing folks for.
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Take it easy, but take it.
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Love is the only medicine I believe in.
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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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Anyone who used more than three chords is just showing off.
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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.
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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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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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All you can write is what you see.
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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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Left wing. Right wing. Chicken wing.
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