Woody Guthrie

“This machine kills fascists.”

“This land is your land, this land is my land.”

“Take it easy, but take it.”

“A folk song is what's wrong and how to fix it.”

“All you can write is what you see.”

“Some men will rob you with a six-gun, and some with a fountain pen.”

“I ain't a communist necessarily, but I have been in the red all my life.”

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

“I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.”

“Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it.”

“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.”

“The words are the important thing. Don't worry about tunes.”

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

“If you want to learn something, just go listen to a lot of people.”

“One bright sunny morning in the shadow of the steeple, by the relief office, I saw my people. As they stood hungry, I stood there whistling, this land was made for you and me.”