Five Quotes from Woody Guthrie


July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967

"Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple."

"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."

"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."

"Anyone who uses more than two chords is just showing off."

“If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story.” 



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Urban Simplicity.

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