People were talking about songs of the common man in order to make the common man. With Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, they were so common it was just uncommon.


Arlo Guthrie

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A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyric...
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I have two mini huskies called Woody Guthrie and Edison Guthrie.
DHANI HARRISON
Common things are common and Uncommon things are uncommon. Let it be a footprint that you are uncomm...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
What happened to Woody Guthrie, Bob?
BOB DYLAN
The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.
NORMAN ANGELL
A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.
CONFUCIUS
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
WALTER BAGEHOT
The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in mo...
MELVIN POWERS
We don't need another Woody. Even Bob Dylan knew he couldn't be Woody Guthrie... I like Wood...
BUZZ OSBORNE
A Common Man who has Common Sense is better qualified to Lead than a Leader who has no sense of the ...
J.J. BOWLERS
My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for re...
TOM CHAPIN
I came along and was a teenager in the Depression, and nobody had jobs. So I went out hitchhiking, w...
PETE SEEGER
Back in the early 30s, Woody and Lead Belly were musical cronies. At all the New York folk-song part...
ALAN LOMAX
I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about,...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today.
BILLY BRAGG
I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Gu...
FRANK BLACK
My father was a painter. There was a lot of singing. We hung around with a lot of folk musicians. My...
ALAN ARKIN
Uncommon valor was a common virtue.
CHESTER W. NIMITZ
Who am I helping, what am I breaking, what am I giving, what am I taking?
BOB DYLAN
The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car...
MERLE HAGGARD
My inspiration comes from the common man and nature.
KAILASH KHER
If we reject science, we reject the common man.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ
One thing I have throughout my career, it felt like I did my best to align myself with quality artis...
COMMON
Everything I'm saying shouldn't be taken so serious. I'm playing, but at the same token,...
COMMON
I was in the heart and soul of Baltimore. I definitely felt a connection to the people. They're ...
COMMON
It was incredible to have J Dilla in your dining room making beats - it was one of the greatest expe...
COMMON
People that I care about, that I consider being friends of mine, most of the things I discuss with t...
COMMON
I learned a long time ago to be honest when I'm talking to other artists. Up-and-coming artists ...
COMMON
Hip-hop is supposed to help you elevate, or go higher.
COMMON
Technically, my first acting job was in one of my videos for a song called 'Retrospect For Life,...
COMMON
After you make good, quality music, then it's your job to go out there and promote it and to mar...
COMMON
Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.
COMMON
Man, if I get a chance to speak on the microphone, I've got to say something somewhere in there....
COMMON
I come from playing sports. I compete, so I gotta be better than I was last year. I gotta get better...
COMMON
I think you really have to remember what you loved about making music in the first place. Ultimately...
COMMON
The impact of a conscious artist is necessary, and it ripples through the world.
COMMON
I came from the South Side of Chicago wanting to be a rap artist and make videos.
COMMON
Oh man, I love what the South brings as far as the soul, and I really have noticed from even the ear...
COMMON
Disruptive innovation is simply doing a common thing in an uncommon way or doing an uncommon thing i...
BRYAN INDIGO
I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.
ANGUS WILSON
On Common Sense:
Common sense isn't.
Corollary: Uncommon sense is.
KALIFER DEIL
As a teacher of Greek I gave the intellectual man weapons against the common man. I now want to give...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common e...
MARK RYLANCE
Common sense, common care, common prudence, were all sunk in Mrs. Dashwood's romantic delicacy.
JANE AUSTEN
Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN
It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.
HEINRICH HEINE
It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man
HEINRICH HEINE
For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human natur...
CHRISTOPHER DAWSON
Good ideas are common - what's uncommon are people who'll work hard enough to bring them about
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT
The worst affected from corruption is the common man.
KAILASH KHER
Common Sense is very uncommon.
HORACE GREELEY
I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the ...
MICHAEL BOLTON
If only common sense were more common.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, t...
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE
Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's ...
PAUL ROBESON
They're common-sense things that people utilize in their own homes. The policy was to make official ...
ALAN WAGNER
God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
God must love the common man, he made so many of them
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.
DAME ROSE MACAULAY
Human beings were embedded with wisdom in order to cope up challenges and trials based on their perc...
IVAN MON C. PANES
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual ac...
SOURCE UNKNOWN
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual a...
UNKNOWN
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual ac...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.
VINCE MCMAHON
The one thing that centenarians have in common is uncommon appreciation. They aren’t whiners. They...
DR. NOELLE NELSON
The President to-night has a dream: He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who h...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
ROBERT FROST
All I'd ever done was sing songs that were dead straight and expressed powerful new realities. I had...
BOB DYLAN
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
DEAN INGE
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
CONFUCIUS
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
CONFUCIUS
One should use common words to say uncommon things
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men...
ARISTOTLE
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
A miracle is often the willingness to see the common in an uncommon way.
NOAH BENSHEA
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
Previous winners have come from all walks of life in our community, and they all had one thing in co...
HENRY JOHNSON
deep sense of the common man. He was born to the job that he did.
DAVID STRATHAIRN
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely re...
SAMUEL BUTLER
We spent all those years talking about stuff we had in common, and the last few months noticing all ...
NICK HORNBY
Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.
MARCUS GARVEY
The biggest difference between ancient Rome and the USA is that in Rome the common man was treated l...
I. F. STONE
The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.
CONFUCIUS
Protestantism came to America to make America Protestant. It was assumed that was to be done through...
STANLEY HAUERWAS
Growing up, I listened to a lot of American singer/songwriters, so a lot of Tom Waits, Paul Simon - ...
GEORGE EZRA
He felt comfortable in so many different situations. He had the respect of world leaders and the com...
AL CADE
I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film...
UDAY KIRAN
Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the m...
STEVE EARLE
When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an unco...
HERBERT HOOVER
You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With...
LYLE LOVETT
I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.
PETER O'TOOLE
You were used to say extremity was the trier of spirits; that common chances common men could bear; ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
She has never been afraid to assert herself in areas whether it was common or uncommon for women to ...
GERALD TURNER
Quentin and I were constantly finding something new that we had in common and comic books were one o...
DAVID CARRADINE
During the dance of Giants, common man gets stomped on.
BEN OAK
It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

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I'm so happy to be here.
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Yes, I was born in Coney Island. The Holy Land.
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I don't want a pickle, just want to ride on my motorsickle.
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This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York Island. From the redwo...
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The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has ...
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When life hands you lemonade, don't try to make lemons
VINCE GUTHRIE
Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.
JANET GUTHRIE
Racing takes everything you've got -- intellectually, emotionally, physically -- and then you have t...
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As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, the...
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It (racing) is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little momen...
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We know that when Main Street does well, so do American families.
BRETT GUTHRIE
I have voted to repeal the president's health care law and will continue to advocate for its rep...
BRETT GUTHRIE
If you play more than two chords, you're showing off.
WOODY GUTHRIE
Take it easy, but take it.
WOODY GUTHRIE
You have to give all the credit to them -- for the way they shot, for the way they played, for the w...
BOB GUTHRIE
After Marion-Franklin beat us (117-84 on Jan. 24), we went back to the drawing board. And they took ...
BOB GUTHRIE
We really played Independence pretty well, we just had that bad spell we have every game. I think we...
BOB GUTHRIE
We can't put four good quarters together. Against Independence (79-61 loss Dec. 16) we were up 34-30...
BOB GUTHRIE
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
THOMAS GUTHRIE
Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.
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I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pre...
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Yes, as through this world I've wandered I've seen lots of funny men; Some will rob you with a six-g...
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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change...
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California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see, But believe it or not, you won't find ...
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I'm really quite normal. My imagination has some serious kinks in it, that's all.
ALLAN GUTHRIE
Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.
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I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think tha...
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The marsh is a filter system, and it buffers the effect of the flood and storm tides.
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You could listen to his songs and actually learn how to live.
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stupid dumb ass.
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We are going to wait and see how many declare and go from there.
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I should get a manicure more often.
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He was like a sponge.
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It's so encompassing that almost any other state's issue would nest within it.
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My dad always said there was something in the soil that made them sweet.
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And on the sign it said "No Trespassing."
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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change...
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Lots of the wild animals in the caves have spears in them and blood coming out of their mouths and e...
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It does indicate his desire to stick with the structure of the plan that was agreed upon.
CAROL GUTHRIE
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Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me, A sign was painted said: "Private Property", But ...
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Maybe it's the buildings, maybe it's the weather, but you can see it affects us - that Scott...
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Progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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This machine kills fascists.
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We all have the same root, and are connected...
To tap into this connectedness we must go withi...
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What we find in the fossil record doesn't always represent what was going on. Prior to the pottery a...
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These were not the type of paintings that make it into the coffee-table art books.
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It's round the world I've traveled; it's round the world I've roamed; but I've yet to see an outlaw ...
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It was like kids taking a pencil and drawing an outline around their hand.
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I got started in Oklahoma. That's where I was born. Population down there is one-third Indians, ...
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I think the precedent the Court of Appeals has set here is a dangerous precedent.
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That was taken the day before she died.
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I just couldn't motivate myself to go to a job. I have bouts of emotional troubles.
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Our dogs have traveled all over the country.
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We generally have anywhere from five to 15 pets adopted each weekend.
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They were found at a car wash after she had just had her babies. She was covered up with trash.
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I felt like the pied piper with all those footsteps following me.
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It matters, ... to the world at large.
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The way you're going to catch the fish in this area is with long casts. You can't run in on the fish...
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The proponents of the ... amendment clearly continue to try, in every way possible, to conceal from ...
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Nobody knows what this thing will do.
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