Woody Guthrie Quotes (13 Quotes)

Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Propertybut on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.

This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York Island. From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me.

You could listen to his songs and actually learn how to live.

So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh.

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

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

I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work. And the songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you.

I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim or too ugly or too this or too that.

A lot of songs were written in about a six-month period that coincided with the run-up to the election, ... And we were recording it in the fall, just a couple of weeks before the election. The World Series was going on too, I think. Just having that climate in this country at that time, I had to acknowledge some of what was going on at the time.

The show ended as likely everyone in the audience had hoped with Colvin joining Hiatt for a joining encore. Hiatt introduced the song saying heres one you all learned as kids, ... This Land Is Your Land.

California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see, But believe it or not, you won't find it so hot If you ain't got the do re mi

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

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