Another Quote by Buzz Osborne

If Woody Guthrie set the bar for American songwriters, Bob Dylan jumped right over it. No one I know will ever come close to…

— John Mellencamp

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

— Sixto Rodriguez

Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today.

— Billy Bragg

Most people think that I heard Bob Dylan first and got a cap and harmonica. Really, it was Woody Guthrie. He was so influential.

— Donovan

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

Actually, I'm the Scottish Woody Guthrie.

— Donovan

Any nobody from the folk blues world could avoid being influenced by Woody Guthrie, who is actually of Scottish-Irish ancestry.

— Donovan

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 eventually maybe…

— Justin Townes Earle

After an initial solo album in which the young [Bob] Dylan was just finding his voice (i.e., reinventing himself from the middle-class Robert Zimmerman…

— Jay Michaelson

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

— Ryan Bingham

I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot.

— Oscar Isaac

I always knew that sooner or later there would come somebody like Woody Guthrie who could make a great song every week. Dylan certainly…

— Pete Seeger