Guthrie Quotes

You have to give all the credit to them -- for the way they shot, for the way they played, for the way they prepared for us. Their inside-out game killed us. - Bob Guthrie

You get people talking about being worried about their art, and dances... their culture being wiped out or taken over, and yet these same people are taking advantage of their people to use them as cheap labour. - Arlo Guthrie

You could listen to his songs and actually learn how to live. - Woody Guthrie

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in. - Arlo Guthrie

Yes, as through this world I've wandered I've seen lots of funny men; Some will rob you with a six-gun, And some with a fountain pen. - Woody Guthrie

Woody Guthrie was a very complex man. A lot of people don't know that, but they should. He wasn't some dust-bowl hobo. He was writing letters to Albert Einstein. He was a tremendous artist. People need to see that. He was an inspired man we must remember. - Jimmy LaFave

With all of the history that he'd had with the Weavers, he really was a connection between my dad's era and the world of the late 60's. - Arlo Guthrie

What we find in the fossil record doesn't always represent what was going on. Prior to the pottery age, women in all societies are working in things that don't preserve very well, such as skins and braiding fiber. - Dale Guthrie

What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing. - Justin Townes Earle

What happened to Woody Guthrie, Bob? - Bob Dylan