91 Quotes by Woody Guthrie

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

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 too ugly or too this or too that.

Left wing. Right wing. Chicken wing.

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

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.

The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine.

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

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.

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