91 Quotes by Woody Guthrie

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

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

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

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

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

Left wing, right wing, chicken wing.

I’d give my life just to lay my head tonight on a bed of California stars.

All of this talking about what’s up in the sky, or down in hell, for that matter, isn’t half as important as what’s right here, right now, right in front of your eyes. Things are tough. Folks broke. Kids hungry. Sick. Everything. And people has got to have more faith in one another, believe in each other. There’s a spirit of some kind we’ve all got. That’s got to draw us all together.

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