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

All about a human being is, it’s a great big hoping machine. — Woody Guthrie

This machine kills fascists. — Woody Guthrie

I like to write about wherever I happen to be. — Woody Guthrie

Nobody living can ever stop me. As I go walking my freedom highway. Nobody living can make me turn back. This land was made for you and me. — Woody Guthrie

Now as I look around, it’s mighty plain to see, This world is such a great and a funny place to be. Oh, the gamblin’ man is rich, an’ the workin’ man is poor, And I ain’t got no home in this world anymore. — Woody Guthrie

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

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

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 wondering if God blessed America for me. — Woody Guthrie

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

One day we’ll all find out that all of our songs was just little notes in a great big song! — Woody Guthrie

I got started in Oklahoma. That’s where I was born. Population down there is one–third Indians, one–third Negroes and one–third white people. — Woody Guthrie

Left wing. Right wing. Chicken wing. — Woody Guthrie

The words are the important thing. Don’t worry about tunes. Take a tune, sing high when they sing low, sing fast when they sing slow, and you’ve got a new tune. — Woody Guthrie

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

I ain’t a communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life. — Woody Guthrie

As I went walking That ribbon of highway I saw above me The endless skyway I saw below me The lonesome valley This land was made for you and me. — Woody Guthrie

If you want to learn something, just steal it. — Woody Guthrie

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

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

Left wing, chicken wing, it don’t make no difference to me. — Woody Guthrie

Some men rob you with a six–gun––others rob you with a fountain pen. — Woody Guthrie

Life’s pretty tough . . . you’re lucky if you live through it. — Woody Guthrie

You can’t write a good song about a whorehouse unless you’ve been in one. — Woody Guthrie

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

All you can write is what you see. — Woody Guthrie

Now as through this world I ramble, I see lots of funny men, Some rob you with a six gun, And some with a fountain pen. — Woody Guthrie

Love is the only medicine I believe in. — Woody Guthrie

Let me be known as just the man that told you something you already knew. — Woody Guthrie

If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story. — Woody Guthrie

If you play more than two chords, you’re showing off. — Woody Guthrie

I worked in your orchards of peaches and prunes. I slept on the ground in the light of the moon. On the edge of the city you’ll see us and then, we come with the dust and we go with the wind. — Woody Guthrie

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

Take it easy, but take it. — Woody Guthrie

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