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• A song ain't nothing but a conversation fixed up to where you can talk it over and over without getting tired of it.

  Woody Guthrie

  Music, Song, Tired

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• I better quit my talking 'cause I told you all I know But please remember, pardner, wherever you may go The people are building a peaceful world, and when the job is done, That'll be the biggest thing that man has ever done.

  Woody Guthrie

  Jobs, Work, Men

  Song: The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done

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• You can't write a good song about a whorehouse unless you've been in one.

  Woody Guthrie

  Song, Writing

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• A folk song is what's wrong and how to fix it or it could be
  who's hungry and where their mouth is or
  who's out of work and where the job is or
  who's broke and where the money is or
  who's carrying a gun and where the peace is.

  Woody Guthrie

  Song, Jobs, Gun

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• All about a human being is, it's a great big hoping machine.

  Woody Guthrie

  Machines, Bigs, Humans

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I ain't a communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life.

  Woody Guthrie

  Freedom, Red, Communist

  "Woody Guthrie" by Steve Earle, The Nation, July 21, 2003.

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• Now as I look around, it's mighty plain to see,
  This world is such a great and a funny place to be.
  Oh, the gamblin' man is rich, an' the workin' man is poor,
  And I ain't got no home in this world anymore.

  Woody Guthrie

  Home, Men, Looks

  Song: I Ain't Got No Home In This World Anymore

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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 fast when they sing slow, and you've got a new tune.

  Woody Guthrie

  Worry, Important, Tunes

  "Readers recommend: songs that sample, recycle and reinvent" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2014.

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• All you can write is what you see.

  Woody Guthrie

  Writing

  Woody Guthrie (2013). “House of Earth”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• This land is made for you and me.

  Woody Guthrie

  Land, Made

  Woody Guthrie (2013). “Una casa di Terra”, p.25, Edizioni Mondadori

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• This machine kills fascists.

  Woody Guthrie

  Machines, Fascists, Power Of Music

  Woody Guthrie (2013). “Haus aus Erde”, p.19, BASTEI LÜBBE

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• If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story.

  Woody Guthrie

  Cameras, Stories, World

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• It's round the world I've traveled; it's round the world I've roamed; but I've yet to see an outlaw drive a family from its home

  Woody Guthrie

  Home, World, Outlaw

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• Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.

  Woody Guthrie

  Wings, Differences, Chickens

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• If you want to learn something, just steal it.

  Woody Guthrie

  Want, Stealing, Ifs

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• If you play more than two chords, you're showing off.

  Woody Guthrie

  Play, Two, Ego

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• Uncle Sam took up the challenge in the year of '33 For the farmer and the factory and all of you and me. He said, "Roll along Columbia. You can ramble to the sea, But river while you're ramblin' you can do some work for me."

  Woody Guthrie

  Uncles, Years, Sea

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• I worked in your orchards of peaches and prunes. I slept on the ground in the light of the moon. On the edge of the city you'll see us and then, we come with the dust and we go with the wind.

  Woody Guthrie

  Moon, Light, Dust

  Song: Pastures Of Plenty

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• One bright sunny morning in the shadow of the steeple, by the Relief Office, I saw my people - As they stood hungry, I stood there wondering if God blessed America for me.

  Woody Guthrie

  Morning, Blessed, America

  Manuscript notes when writing what would later become the song "This Land Is Your Land", February 23, 1940.

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• My eyes has been my camera taking pictures of the world and my songs has been my messages that I tried to scatter across the back sides and along the steps of the fire escapes and on the window sills and through the dark halls.

  Woody Guthrie

  Song, Eye, Dark

  "Bound For Glory". Book by Woody Guthrie, 1943.

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• I have decided long ago that my songs and ballads would not get the hugs and kisses of the capitalistic experts.

  Woody Guthrie

  Song, Kissing, Long Ago

  Woody Guthrie, Dave Marsh, Harold Leventhal (1990). “Pastures of plenty: a self-portrait”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• You oil field workers, come and listen to me I'm goin' to tell you a story about old John D. That company union made a fool out of me. That company union don't charge no dues It leaves you a-singing them Rockefeller blues. That company union made a fool out of me. Takes that good ole C.I.O., boys To keep that oil a-rollin', rollin' over the sea. Takes that good ole C.I.O., boys To keep that oil a-rollin' over the sea.

  Woody Guthrie

  Boys, Sea, Oil

  Song: Keep That Oil A-Rollin'

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• Okemah was one of the singingest, square dancingest, drinkingest, yellingest, preachingest, walkingest, talkingest, laughingest, cryingest, shootingest, fist fightingest, bleedingest, gamblingest, gun, club and razor carryingest of our ranch towns and farm towns, because it blossomed out into one of our first Oil Boom Towns.

  Woody Guthrie

  Gun, Squares, Oil

  "Pastures Of Plenty: A Self Portrait". Book by Woody Guthrie, p. 3, 1990.

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• I like to write about wherever I happen to be.

  Woody Guthrie

  Writing, Happens

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• Nobody living can ever stop me. As I go walking my freedom highway. Nobody living can make me turn back. This land was made for you and me.

  Woody Guthrie

  Freedom, Hippie, Land

  Woody Guthrie (2012). “Every 100 Years - The Woody Guthrie Centennial Songbook: 100 Years - 100 Songs”, p.154, Hal Leonard Corporation

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