Woody Guthrie Quotes

There's several ways of saying what's on your mind. And in states and counties where it ain't too healthy to talk too loud, speak your mind, or even vote like you want to, folks have found other ways of getting the word around. One of the mainest ways is by singing.

- Woody Guthrie

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.

- Woody Guthrie

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

- Woody Guthrie

I like to write about wherever I happen to be.

- Woody Guthrie

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.

- Woody Guthrie

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

- Woody Guthrie

I got started in Oklahoma. That's where I was born. Population down there is one-third Indians, one-third Negroes and one-third white people.

- Woody Guthrie

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

- Woody Guthrie