In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
...you could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live ... — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Woody Guthrie was what folks who don't believe in anything would call an anomaly. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I grew up in the Bay Area, and I went to lovely public schools with gardens and arts programs, and we sang… — Monica Barbaro Copy Share Image
I loved the Woody Guthrie tradition of speaking about what's happening to the country. — Sixto Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers. — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car. — Merle Haggard Copy Share Image
Most people think that I heard Bob Dylan first and got a cap and harmonica. Really, it was Woody Guthrie. He was… — Donovan Copy Share Image
My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone,… — Tom Chapin Copy Share Image
“Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple. —Woody Guthrie” — Ann Handley Copy Share Image
A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
After an initial solo album in which the young [Bob] Dylan was just finding his voice (i.e., reinventing himself from the middle-class… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
I came along and was a teenager in the Depression, and nobody had jobs. So I went out hitchhiking, when I met… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Growing up, I listened to a lot of American singer/songwriters, so a lot of Tom Waits, Paul Simon - also Woody Guthrie… — George Ezra Copy Share Image
I don't think I have any right to say I belong to that [Woody Guthrie/Bob Dylan tradition]. I think that's something that… — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
The first songs I learned were 'It Takes a Worried Man' and Woody Guthrie's 'Grand Coulee Dam,' 'Rock Island Line' - those… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk… — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
I absorbed the vinyl of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Jack Elliott, to Michael McClure and then into the Beat poets, Allen Ginsberg.… — Donovan Copy Share Image
Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
My best songs were written very quickly. Just about as much time as it takes to write it down is about as… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I think when people think of music from coming from Oklahoma, they think of Toby Keith or even Garth Brooks or even… — Wayne Coyne Copy Share Image
I always knew that sooner or later there would come somebody like Woody Guthrie who could make a great song every week.… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I went to high school right outside Dallas, and (songwriter and performer) Michael Martin Murphey was a senior there when I was… — Ray Wylie Hubbard Copy Share Image
Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
“Long ago, when New York City was affordable, people who felt they didn’t fit into the mainstream could take a chance and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today. — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
Dylan used to sound like a lung cancer victim singing Woody Guthrie. Now he sounds like a Rolling Stone singing Immanuel Kant. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We don't need another Woody. Even Bob Dylan knew he couldn't be Woody Guthrie... I like Woody Guthrie fine, but I don't… — Buzz Osborne Copy Share Image
Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
People were talking about songs of the common man in order to make the common man. With Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly,… — Arlo Guthrie Copy Share Image
I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You'll find God in the church of your choice, you'll find Woody Guthrie in the Brooklyn State Hospital. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The Gulf Stream waters of Woody Guthrie's famous song were strung with columns of oil that were several miles long. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always been a big fan of how Woody Guthrie wrote political songs like 'This Land is Your Land.' — Ryan Bingham Copy Share Image
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