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It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people
Woody Guthrie
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Woody Guthrie
Age: 55 †
Born: 1912
Born: July 14
Died: 1967
Died: October 3
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A folk song is what's wrong and how to fix it or it could be who's hungry and where their mouth is or who's out of work and where the job is or who's broke and where the money is or who's carrying a gun and where the peace is.
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This land is made for you and me.
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All of you cowboys, fight for your land.
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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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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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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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Life has a habit of not staying hitched. You got to ride it like you find it.
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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.
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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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If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story.
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Anyone who used more than three chords is just showing off.
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Some men rob you with a six-gun -- others rob you with a fountain pen.
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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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If you want to learn something, just steal 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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Take it easy, but take it.
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Left wing. Right wing. Chicken wing.
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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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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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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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