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I got a phone call from Douglas Campbell and from Jerome Guthrie, who offered me a job out of the blue.
— Jeffrey Jones
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
— Thomas Guthrie
The new novel is sought more eagerly, and devoured more greedily, the New Testament.
— Thomas Guthrie
I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.
— Neil Diamond
Nouns and verbs are the guts of the language. Beware of covering up with adjectives and adverbs.
— A.B. Guthrie Jr.
It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.
— Merle Haggard
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
Astonish me in the morning!
— Tyrone 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
It's round the world I've traveled; it's round the world I've roamed; but I've yet to see an outlaw drive a family from its home
— Woody Guthrie
Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?
— Thomas Guthrie
The Gulf Stream waters of Woody Guthrie's famous song were strung with columns of oil that were several miles long.
— James Lee Burke
Recession, terrorism, debts, political turmoil, disease, famine, mortality... screw it, I'm putting googly eyes on things.
— Charles R.L. Guthrie
I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.
— Frank Black
There's only one God. Call him whatever you want.
— Arlo Guthrie
I like to write about wherever I happen to be.
— Woody Guthrie
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
— Arlo Guthrie
You drive the car, you don't carry it.
— Janet Guthrie
Racing is a calling, a passion.
— Janet Guthrie
The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head.
— Alfred Bertram Guthrie
Anyone who used more than three chords is just showing off.
— Woody Guthrie
Work can only be universal if it is rooted in a part of its creator which is most privately and particularly himself.
— Tyrone Guthrie
I should get a manicure more often.
— Savannah Guthrie
One day we'll all find out that all of our songs was just little notes in a great big song!
— Woody Guthrie
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
It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people
— Woody Guthrie
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 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
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
This machine kills fascists.
— Woody Guthrie
The wheel may be turning, but the hamster is DEAD!
— Georgina Guthrie
My 3am wake up call sounds a lot different now. Sweeter ...
— Savannah Guthrie
Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today.
— Billy Bragg
Yes, I was born in Coney Island. The Holy Land.
— Arlo Guthrie
Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault.
— Arlo Guthrie
If you want to end war and stuff, you gotta sing loud.
— Arlo Guthrie
Along with a sense of humor, my songs have to be sincere, and they have to be sung from a position of inner conviction.
— Arlo Guthrie
We had a great time on the bench talking about crime, mother-stabbin', father raping, all kinds of groovy things.
— Arlo Guthrie
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
What's in that pipe that he's smoking?
— Arlo Guthrie
Being famous is not the same as being important. A lot of important people aren't famous, and a lot of famous people aren't important.
— Arlo Guthrie
Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens.
— Alfred Bertram Guthrie
The hope of immortality makes heroes of cowards.
— Thomas Guthrie
The work that is done in love loses half its tedium and difficulty.
— Thomas Guthrie
Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.
— Woody Guthrie
More tears are shed in playhouses than in churches.
— Thomas Guthrie
I've written quite a variety of songs, everything from kids songs to political satire, and my dad covered a fairly large range, also.
— Arlo Guthrie
I left the entertainment industry part of my life behind in 1983, when we decided not to work with major record companies anymore.
— Arlo Guthrie
I have two mini huskies called Woody Guthrie and Edison Guthrie.
— Dhani Harrison
All about a human being is, it's a great big hoping machine.
— Woody Guthrie
But I also think that once you've found stuff that works, stop reading forums, stop reading reviews and just get out there and play.
— Guthrie Govan
The finest flowers of genius have grown in an atmosphere where those of Nature are prone to droop, and difficult to bring to maturity.
— Thomas Guthrie
The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.
— Arlo Guthrie
No Judgment = No Expectations: That's my motto.
— Arlo Guthrie
I froze in time! And I thought My God ... I'm free!
— Arlo Guthrie
The New York State Freeway's closed, man. Far out!
— Arlo Guthrie
This land is made for you and me.
— Woody Guthrie
I don't want a pickle, just want to ride on my motorsickle.
— Arlo Guthrie
Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.
— Arlo Guthrie
Songs are like fish. You just gotta have your line in the water. And it's a bad idea to fish downstream from Bob Dylan.
— Arlo Guthrie
Good enough is never good enough.
— Alfred Bertram Guthrie
If you steal from one person is Theft, and if you steal from Lots of people is Research
— Guthrie Govan
Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.
— Janet Guthrie
Prayer flies where the eagle never flew.
— Thomas Guthrie
Whatever you've learned becomes truly useful to you only once it has become second nature.
— Guthrie Govan
As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.
— Thomas Guthrie
Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system.
— Thomas Guthrie
I know the police cause you trouble They cause trouble everywhere But when you die and go to heaven You find no policeman there
— Woody Guthrie
You'll find God in the church of your choice, you'll find Woody Guthrie in the Brooklyn State Hospital.
— Bob Dylan
I don't do anything on stage that allows me to become a trained seal, where you're just doing the same thing over and over.
— Arlo 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
I don't want a pickle, I just want ride on my motorcikle. I don't want to die, I just want a ride on my motorcy ... cle.
— Arlo Guthrie
Speed is a byproduct of good, slow practice.
— Guthrie Govan
A sunny temper [an attitude of gratitude for what blessings and mercies there are] gilds the edges of life's blackest cloud.
— Thomas Guthrie
But think of the last guy. For one minute, think of the last guy. Nobody's got it worse than that guy. Nobody in the whole world.
— Arlo Guthrie
The most profound, life-altering gift you can offer the Indie writer you love is to TELL as MANY avid readers as you are able.
— R.S. Guthrie
It's about the time I was riding my Motorcycle, going down a mountain road at 150 miles an hour, playing my guitar.
— Arlo Guthrie
Speak, fair; but speak fair words, or else be mute:
— Georgina Guthrie
