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

- Woody Guthrie

As I went walking I saw a sign there And on the sign it said "No Trespassing." But on the other side it didn't say nothing, That side was made for yo…

- 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…

- Woody Guthrie

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 ma…

- Woody Guthrie

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

- Woody Guthrie

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

- Woody Guthrie

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

- Woody Guthrie

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 huma…

- Woody Guthrie

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

- Woody Guthrie