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I ain't a communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life.

Woody Guthrie

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Woody Guthrie
Age: 55 †
Born: 1912
Born: July 14
Died: 1967
Died: October 3
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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.
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I better quit my talking 'cause I told you all I know But please remember, pardner, wherever you may go The people are building a peaceful world, and when the job is done, That'll be the biggest thing that man has ever done.
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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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I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and set down at the side of some shady lane, and say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns.
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I have decided long ago that my songs and ballads would not get the hugs and kisses of the capitalistic experts.
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Love is the only medicine I believe in.
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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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I like to write about wherever I happen to be.
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You can't write a good song about a whorehouse unless you've been in one.
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If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story.
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Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.
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The best way to get to know any bunch of people is to go and listen to their music.
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Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.
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If you play more than two chords, you're showing off.
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A song ain't nothing but a conversation fixed up to where you can talk it over and over without getting tired of it.
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All about a human being is, it's a great big hoping machine.
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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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