"It's a folk singers job to comfort disturbed……" — Woody Guthrie
"It's a folk singers job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people"
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46 Quotes by Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie has 46 quotes on this site.
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Nobody living can ever stop me. As I go walking my freedom highway. Nobody living can make me turn back.…
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I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes…
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I better quit my talking 'cause I told you all I know But please remember, pardner, wherever you may go…
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Now as through this world I ramble, I see lots of funny men, Some rob you with a six gun,…
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If you want to learn something, just steal it.
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Life's pretty tough . . . you're lucky if you live through it.
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This land is made for you and me.
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Okemah was one of the singingest, square dancingest, drinkingest, yellingest, preachingest, walkingest, talkingest, laughingest, cryingest, shootingest, fist fightingest, bleedingest, gamblingest,…
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The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom…
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The words are the important thing. Don't worry about tunes. Take a tune, sing high when they sing low, sing…
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I ain't a communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life.
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My eyes has been my camera taking pictures of the world and my songs has been my messages that I…
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More Comfort Quotes
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one of 2,510 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief;…
— Aristotle
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When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
— Isaac Asimov
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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
— Jane Austen
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it…
— Teresa of Avila
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Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is…
— Teresa of Avila
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
— Francis Bacon
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
— Saint Basil
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day…
— Joseph Addison
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I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and…
— Adele
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Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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