Quote

Some men rob you with a six-gun -- others rob you with a fountain pen.

Woody Guthrie

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Woody Guthrie
Age: 55 †
Born: 1912
Born: July 14
Died: 1967
Died: October 3
Autobiographer
Composer
Guitarist
Mandolinist
Musician
Musicologist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Street Artist
Trade Unionist
Okemah
Oklahoma
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie
Woodrow Wilson Woody Guthrie
Fountain
Pens
Gun
Six
Funny
Others
Men

More quotes by Woody Guthrie

Image
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.
Woody Guthrie
Image
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
Image
All about a human being is, it's a great big hoping machine.
Woody Guthrie
Image
If you want to learn something, just steal it.
Woody Guthrie
Image
If we fix it so's you can't make money on war, we'll all forget what we're killing folks for.
Woody Guthrie
Image
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.
Woody Guthrie
Image
Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.
Woody Guthrie
Image
All you can write is what you see.
Woody Guthrie
Image
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.
Woody Guthrie
Image
Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.
Woody Guthrie
Image
If you play more than two chords, you're showing off.
Woody Guthrie
Image
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.
Woody Guthrie
Image
Do Re Mi California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see, But believe it or not, you won't find it so hot If you ain't got the do re mi
Woody Guthrie
Image
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.
Woody Guthrie
Image
Left wing. Right wing. Chicken wing.
Woody Guthrie
Image
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.
Woody Guthrie
Image
Anyone who used more than three chords is just showing off.
Woody Guthrie
Image
One day we'll all find out that all of our songs was just little notes in a great big song!
Woody Guthrie
Image
You can't write a good song about a whorehouse unless you've been in one.
Woody Guthrie
Image
The best way to get to know any bunch of people is to go and listen to their music.
Woody Guthrie