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I have two mini huskies called Woody Guthrie and Edison Guthrie. -- Dhani Harrison
Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today. -- Billy Bragg
It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car. -- Merle Haggard
I got a phone call from Douglas Campbell and from Jerome Guthrie, who offered me a job out of the blue. -- Jeffrey Jones
I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song. -- Frank Black
My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in between. -- Tom Chapin
I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first encountered Woody Guthrie. -- Bruce Springsteen
A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song. -- John Mellencamp
We don't need another Woody. Even Bob Dylan knew he couldn't be Woody Guthrie... I like Woody Guthrie fine, but I don't need the 50th generation version of it. -- Buzz Osborne
I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do. -- John Hawkes
A lot of my training is in classical theatre; I've done a lot of classical plays in New York and also at the Guthrie and here and there across the country. -- Laila Robins
Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song. -- Steve Earle
I came along and was a teenager in the Depression, and nobody had jobs. So I went out hitchhiking, when I met a man named Woody Guthrie. He was the single biggest part of my education. -- Pete Seeger
My father was a painter. There was a lot of singing. We hung around with a lot of folk musicians. My family knew a lot of great folk musicians of the time, like Woody Guthrie, Paul Robeson, Leadbelly. They were all people we knew. -- Alan Arkin
Irish fathers still have certain responsibilities, and by the time my two daughters turned seven, they could swim, ride a bike, sing at least one part of a Woody Guthrie song, and recite all of W. B. Yeats's 'The Song of Wandering Aengus.' -- Adrian McKinty
What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing. -- Justin Townes Earle
What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us. -- Jim Hightower
People were talking about songs of the common man in order to make the common man. With Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, they were so common it was just uncommon. -- Arlo Guthrie
I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie. -- Gordon Lightfoot
The spirit of Woody Guthrie lives in the heart of Chris Chandler. -- Peter Yarrow
I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder? -- Robert E. Howard
...you could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live ... -- Bob Dylan
Woody Guthrie was what folks who don't believe in anything would call an anomaly. -- Steve Earle
In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie. -- Bob Dylan
You'll find God in the church of your choice, you'll find Woody Guthrie in the Brooklyn State Hospital. -- Bob Dylan
The Gulf Stream waters of Woody Guthrie's famous song were strung with columns of oil that were several miles long. -- James Lee
I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers. -- Neil Diamond
I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song. -- Frank Black
when i reached the bottom, i finally understood what Guthrie meant when he shouted, "LIBERO!" It was a celebration of being alive -- Sharon Creech
Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind. -- Bob Dylan
Democracy doesn't begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls 'The Patriot's Dream. -- Bill Moyers
I did admire the comments and the music of Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. And that didn't fly too well in the Deep South. It was not quite redneck enough. -- Steve Young
I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do -- John Hawkes
the fact that they stole their whole shtick from Woody Guthrie and the coal-mining bards. While the alternative nation meows about personal fashion angst, the Appalachian nation still sings about unemployment. -- Jim Goad
I don't think I have any right to say I belong to that [Woody Guthrie/Bob Dylan tradition]. I think that's something that eventually maybe you get inducted into. I'm just experimenting. -- Justin Townes Earle
Here was this man Tom Guthrie in Holt standing at the back window in the kitchen of his house smoking cigarettes and looking out over the back lot where the sun was just coming up. -- Kent Haruf
If Woody Guthrie set the bar for American songwriters, Bob Dylan jumped right over it. No one I know will ever come close to possessing the beauty of melody and the use of language that Dylan shares with us, with ease. -- John Mellencamp
Renaissance cowboy/raconteur Pop Wagner ...deadpan funny ...his presence is like meeting Woody Guthrie and Will Rogers riding a single, many colored horse. Pop is a kind of 'textile genius' who is able to spin, at once, both yarn and rope. -- Ron Miles
After an initial solo album in which the young [Bob] Dylan was just finding his voice (i.e., reinventing himself from the middle-class Robert Zimmerman into a pseudo-hobo Woody Guthrie), Dylan put out two acoustic albums that forever changed popular music. -- Jay Michaelson
Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me. -- Fred Melamed
Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger - could be as heavy as anything that comes through a Marshall stack. The combination of three chords and the right lyrical couplet can be as heavy as anything in the Metallica catalogue. -- Tom Morello

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