Woody Guthrie Quote

Posted on 07/31/2020 by Pisaries Creator

I was going through my closet looking for something and came across this Woody Guthrie poster I had. I grew up interested in a variety of music and folk was one of them. Guthrie lived through the Great Depression and died in 1967. The Woody Guthrie Center is located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was 55 when he died. His words still ring true today.

“I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard traveling. I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood. I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built. I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work.“

–Woody Guthrie–