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All you can write is what you see.
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 a habit of not staying hitched. You got to ride it like you find it.
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Anyone who used more than three chords is just showing off.
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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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I like to write about wherever I happen to be.
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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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This land is your land, this land is my land
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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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Uncle Sam took up the challenge in the year of '33 For the farmer and the factory and all of you and me. He said, Roll along Columbia. You can ramble to the sea, But river while you're ramblin' you can do some work for me.
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It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people
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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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All of you cowboys, fight for your land.
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You can't write a good song about a whorehouse unless you've been in one.
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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 ain't a communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life.
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Take it easy, but take it.
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It's round the world I've traveled it's round the world I've roamed but I've yet to see an outlaw drive a family from its home
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Love is the only medicine I believe in.
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If you want to learn something, just steal it.
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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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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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