Woody Guthrie Quotes
22 Woody Guthrie quotes by 17 unique authors
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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
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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
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Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much betterĀ than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.
— Bob Dylan
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...you could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live ...
— Bob Dylan
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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
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It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.
— Merle Haggard
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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
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Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today.
— Billy Bragg
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In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.
— Bob Dylan
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I have two mini huskies called Woody Guthrie and Edison Guthrie.
— Dhani Harrison
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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
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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
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You'll find God in the church of your choice, you'll find Woody Guthrie in the Brooklyn State Hospital.
— Bob Dylan
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I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.
— Black Francis
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Woody Guthrie Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 22 Woody Guthrie Quotes as follows: