Woody Guthrie Citas

• El trabajo de un cantante de folk es consolar a la gente perturbada y perturbar a la gente cómoda.

  Woody Guthrie

  Jobs, People, Comforting

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• I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and set down at the side of some shady lane, and say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns.

  Woody Guthrie

  Paz, guerra, lucha

  Woody Guthrie (1975). “Woody Sez”

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

  Woody Guthrie

  Simple, Genius, Fool

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• Algunos hombres te roban con una pistola de seis cañones, otros con una estilográfica.

  Woody Guthrie

  Funny, Gun, Men

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• 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

  Song, Pride, Color

  "Prophet Singer: The Voice And Vision of Woody Guthrie". Book by Mark Allan Jackson, 2007.

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  The best way to get to know any bunch of people is to go and listen to their music.

  Woody Guthrie

  People, Way, Bunch

  Woody Guthrie (1975). “Woody Sez”

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• If we fix it so's you can't make money on war, we'll all forget what we're killing folks for.

  Woody Guthrie

  War, Forget, Making Money

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  The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine.

  Woody Guthrie

  Fall, Machines, Helping

  Woody Guthrie, Dave Marsh, Harold Leventhal (1992). “Pastures of plenty: a self-portrait”, Perennial

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• La vida tiene la costumbre de no quedarse parada. Tienes que montarte en ella como la encuentres. Tienes que cambiar con ella. Si pasa un día sin que cambies algunas de tus viejas nociones por otras nuevas, es como intentar ordeñar una vaca muerta.

  Woody Guthrie

  Change, Trying, Cows

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• I love a good man outside the law, just as much as I hate a bad man inside the law.

  Woody Guthrie

  Hate, Men, Law

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• Take it easy, but take it.

  Woody Guthrie

  Philosophy, Easy, Take It Easy

  Woody Guthrie (1983). “Bound for Glory”, p.145, Penguin

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• Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.

  Woody Guthrie

  Wall, Opportunity, Sides

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• Hay varias formas de decir lo que se piensa. Y en los estados y condados donde no es demasiado saludable hablar demasiado alto, decir lo que piensas o incluso votar como quieres, la gente ha encontrado otras formas de hacer correr la voz. Una de las principales es cantar.

  Woody Guthrie

  Speak Your Mind, Healthy, Singing

  Woody Guthrie, Dave Marsh, Harold Leventhal (1992). “Pastures of plenty: a self-portrait”, Perennial

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• The world is filled with people who are no longer needed -- and who try to make slaves of all of us -- and they have their music and we have ours.

  Woody Guthrie

  Gente, Intentar, Mundo

  Woody Guthrie, Dave Marsh, Harold Leventhal (1992). “Pastures of plenty: a self-portrait”, Perennial

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• One day we'll all find out that all of our songs was just little notes in a great big song!

  Woody Guthrie

  Song, One Day, Littles

  Woody Guthrie, Dave Marsh, Harold Leventhal (1992). “Pastures of plenty: a self-portrait”, Perennial

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• Life's pretty tough . . . you're lucky if you live through it.

  Woody Guthrie

  Lucky, Tough, Ifs

  Woody Guthrie (2013). “House of Earth”, p.6, HarperCollins UK

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• Love is the only medicine I believe in.

  Woody Guthrie

  Believe, Love Is, Medicine

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• Anyone who used more than three chords is just showing off.

  Woody Guthrie

  Guitar, Three, Used

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• As I went walking I saw a sign there And on the sign it said "No Trespassing." But on the other side it didn't say nothing, That side was made for you and me. This land is your land, this land is my land From California to the New York island From the Redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me.

  Woody Guthrie

  New York, Journey, Islands

  "This Land Is Your Land" (song) (1956)

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• Let me be known as just the man that told you something you already knew.

  Woody Guthrie

  Men, He Man, Let Me

  Woody Guthrie (1975). “Woody Sez”

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• A folk song is what's wrong and how to fix it or it could be
  who's hungry and where their mouth is or
  who's out of work and where the job is or
  who's broke and where the money is or
  who's carrying a gun and where the peace is.

  Woody Guthrie

  Song, Jobs, Gun

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• All about a human being is, it's a great big hoping machine.

  Woody Guthrie

  Machines, Bigs, Humans

  Fuente: www.theguardian.com

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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 too ugly or too this or too that.

  Woody Guthrie

  Song, Hate, Crazy

  "Prophet Singer: The Voice And Vision of Woody Guthrie". Book by Mark Allan Jackson, 2007.

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• A song ain't nothing but a conversation fixed up to where you can talk it over and over without getting tired of it.

  Woody Guthrie

  Music, Song, Tired

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• Life has a habit of not staying hitched. You got to ride it like you find it.

  Woody Guthrie

  Like You, Habit, Staying

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