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Love is the only medicine I believe in.

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Woody Guthrie
Age: 55 †
Born: 1912
Born: July 14
Died: 1967
Died: October 3
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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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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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Now as I look around, it's mighty plain to see, This world is such a great and a funny place to be. Oh, the gamblin' man is rich, an' the workin' man is poor, And I ain't got no home in this world anymore.
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If you want to learn something, just steal it.
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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.
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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 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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This land is made for you and me.
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Take it easy, but take it.
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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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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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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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I like to write about wherever I happen to be.
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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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Some men rob you with a six-gun -- others rob you with a fountain pen.
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You can't write a good song about a whorehouse unless you've been in one.
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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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If you play more than two chords, you're showing off.
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