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The first songs I learned were 'It Takes a Worried Man' and Woody Guthrie's 'Grand Coulee Dam,' 'Rock Island Line' - those kind of…

— Rory Gallagher

Songs are like fish. You just gotta have your line in the water. And it's a bad idea to fish downstream from Bob Dylan.

— Arlo Guthrie

Nor must Uncle Sam's Web-feet be forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broadbay,…

— Abraham Lincoln

A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it…

— John Mellencamp

The River,' to me, meant 43 songs.

— Steven Van Zandt

I've always been a big fan of how Woody Guthrie wrote political songs like 'This Land is Your Land.'

— Ryan Bingham

As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

I loved the Woody Guthrie tradition of speaking about what's happening to the country.

— Sixto Rodriguez

“Its whole expanse was covered with tall, juicy grass, and when the wind blew, great waves passed over it with a sound like troubled…

— Michael Ende

I did admire the comments and the music of Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. And that didn't fly too well in the Deep South.…

— Steve Young

“The waters of the stream played the part of the orchestra, and the sunlight provided the dancers. Every now and then a crescendo of…

— Edward Mooney Jr

“In the winter of wet years the streams ran full-freshet, and they swelled the river until sometimes it raged and boiled, bank full, and…

— John Steinbeck