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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 or too ugly or too this or too that.Woody Guthrie
A lot of songs were written in about a six-month period that coincided with the run-up to the election, ... And we were recording it in the fall, just a couple of weeks before the election. The World Series was going on too, I think. Just having that climate in this country at that time, I had to acknowledge some of what was going on at the time.
Woody Guthrie
Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.
Woody Guthrie
If you play more than two chords, you're showing off.
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 matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work. And the songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you.
Woody Guthrie
Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Propertybut on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.
Woody Guthrie
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