woody guthrie

“ I never stopped to think of it before, but you knowa policeman will jest stand there an let a banker rob a farmer, or a finance man rob a workin man. ”

“ All of my words, if not well put nor well taken, are well-meant. ”

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

“ Id give my life just to lay my head tonight on a bed of California stars ”

“ My eyes has been my camera taking pictures of the world and my songs has been my messages that I tried to scatter across the back sides and along the steps of the fire escapes and on the window sills and through the dark halls... ”

“ Everything's against the law, I'm a low-pay daddy singing the high-price blues. ”

“ Left-wing, chicken wing, it doesn't make no difference to me. ”

“ I have decided long ago that my songs and ballads would not get the hugs and kisses of the capitalistic experts. ”

“ All you can write is what you see. ”

“ Are your garments all spotless? ”