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Life has a habit of not staying hitched. You got to ride it like you find it.
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 better quit my talking 'cause I told you all I know But please remember, pardner, wherever you may go The people are building a peaceful world, and when the job is done, That'll be the biggest thing that man has ever done.
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Okemah was one of the singingest, square dancingest, drinkingest, yellingest, preachingest, walkingest, talkingest, laughingest, cryingest, shootingest, fist fightingest, bleedingest, gamblingest, gun, club and razor carryingest of our ranch towns and farm towns, because it blossomed out into one of our first Oil Boom Towns.
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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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It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people
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Left wing. Right wing. Chicken wing.
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I ain't a communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life.
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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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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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Let me be known as just the man that told you something you already knew.
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