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The best way to get to know any bunch of people is to go and listen to their music.
Woody Guthrie
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Woody Guthrie
Age: 55 †
Born: 1912
Born: July 14
Died: 1967
Died: October 3
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If you want to learn something, just steal it.
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Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.
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Life's pretty tough . . . you're lucky if you live through 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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Left wing. Right wing. Chicken wing.
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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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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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