Woody Guthrie Quotes, Thoughts and Images

It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people

Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.

Some men rob you with a six-gun -- others rob you with a fountain pen.

The best way to get to know any bunch of people is to go and listen to their music.

If we fix it so's you can't make money on war, we'll all forget what we're killing folks for.

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.

I love a good man outside the law, just as much as I hate a bad man inside the law.

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

Take it easy, but take it.

The world is filled with people who are no longer needed -- and who try to make slaves of all of us -- and they have their music and we have ours.

One day we'll all find out that all of our songs was just little notes in a great big song!

Love is the only medicine I believe in.

Life's pretty tough . . . you're lucky if you live through it.

Anyone who used more than three chords is just showing off.

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

Life has a habit of not staying hitched. You got to ride it like you find it.

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

This machine kills fascists.

This land is made for you and me.

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

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

Let me be known as just the man that told you something you already knew.

All you can write is what you see.

Now as through this world I ramble, I see lots of funny men, Some rob you with a six gun, And some with a fountain pen.

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.

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

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

Left wing. Right wing. Chicken wing.

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.