Woody Guthrie Quotes & Sayings

8 most famous Woody Guthrie quotes and sayings. He was an American musician who passed away on 4 October, 1967.

“I ain't a Communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life.”

“If you play more than two chords, you're showing off.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.”

“Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.”

“There's several ways of saying what's on your mind. And in states and counties where it ain't too healthy to talk too loud, speak your mind, or even vote like you want to, folks have found other ways of getting the word around. One of the mainest ways is by singing.”