Woody Guthrie Quotes

22 Woody Guthrie quotes by 17 unique authors

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 you… — Justin Townes Earle
My best songs were written very quickly. Just about as much time as it takes to write it down is about as long as it… — Bob Dylan
Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind. — Bob Dylan
...you could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live ... — Bob Dylan
Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early Bob Dylan, Johnny… — Tom Morello
It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car. — Merle Haggard
Renaissance cowboy/raconteur Pop Wagner ...deadpan funny ...his presence is like meeting Woody Guthrie and Will Rogers riding a single, many colored horse. Pop is a… — Ron Miles
Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today. — Billy Bragg
In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie. — Bob Dylan
I have two mini huskies called Woody Guthrie and Edison Guthrie. — Dhani Harrison
My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and… — Tom Chapin
What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done.… — Justin Townes Earle
You'll find God in the church of your choice, you'll find Woody Guthrie in the Brooklyn State Hospital. — Bob Dylan
I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song. — Black Francis
Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was… — Steve Earle
What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including… — Jim Hightower
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 was… — John Mellencamp
I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first… — Bruce Springsteen
the fact that they stole their whole shtick from Woody Guthrie and the coal-mining bards. While the alternative nation meows about personal fashion angst, the… — Jim Goad
I came along and was a teenager in the Depression, and nobody had jobs. So I went out hitchhiking, when I met a man named… — Pete Seeger
My father was a painter. There was a lot of singing. We hung around with a lot of folk musicians. My family knew a lot… — Alan Arkin
People were talking about songs of the common man in order to make the common man. With Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, they were so… — Arlo Guthrie

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