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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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I love a good man outside the law, just as much as I hate a bad man inside the law.
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If you want to learn something, just steal it.
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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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Life's pretty tough . . . you're lucky if you live through it.
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Let me be known as just the man that told you something you already knew.
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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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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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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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The best way to get to know any bunch of people is to go and listen to their music.
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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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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.
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All about a human being is, it's a great big hoping machine.
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