Woody Guthrie Quotes

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.

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.

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.

I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.

Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today.