Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple. Woody Guthrie More Quotes by Woody Guthrie More Quotes From Woody Guthrie Life's pretty tough . . . you're lucky if you live through it. Woody Guthrie tough lucky ifs Uncle Sam took up the challenge in the year of '33 For the farmer and the factory and all of you and me. He said, "Roll along Columbia. You can ramble to the sea, But river while you're ramblin' you can do some work for me." Woody Guthrie uncles sea years You can't write a good song about a whorehouse unless you've been in one. Woody Guthrie writing song A folk song is what's wrong and how to fix it or it could be Woody Guthrie gun song jobs 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 democracy gun men Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me. Woody Guthrie chickens differences wings Left wing. Woody Guthrie right-wing chickens wings 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 tunes important worry 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 tired music song I ain't a communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life. Woody Guthrie communist red freedom This machine kills fascists. Woody Guthrie fascists power-of-music machines Let me be known as just the man that told you something you already knew. Woody Guthrie let-me he-man men Now as I look around, it's mighty plain to see, Woody Guthrie home men looks 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 dust light moon If you play more than two chords, you're showing off. Woody Guthrie ego play two You oil field workers, come and listen to me I'm goin' to tell you a story about old John D. That company union made a fool out of me. That company union don't charge no dues It leaves you a-singing them Rockefeller blues. That company union made a fool out of me. Takes that good ole C.I.O., boys To keep that oil a-rollin', rollin' over the sea. Takes that good ole C.I.O., boys To keep that oil a-rollin' over the sea. Woody Guthrie oil sea boys If you want to learn something, just steal it. Woody Guthrie stealing ifs want 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. Woody Guthrie eye dark song 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 blessed morning america 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. Theirs, the wasted songs of a superstitious nightmare. And without their music and ideological miscarriages to compare our songs of freedom to, we'd not have any opposite to compare music with - - and like the drifting wind, hitting against no obstacle, we'd never know its speed, its power. Woody Guthrie miscarriage song wind
