Jul 4, 2016

Woody Guthrie:  "I never heard my guitar ring so loud and so long and so clear as it did there in them high-polished marble halls.  Every note was ten times as loud, and so was my singing.  I filled myself full of free air and sung as loud as the building would stand.  I wanted the poodle dogs leading the ladies around to stick up their noses and wonder what in the hell had struck that joint.  People had walked hushed up and too nice and quiet through these tiled floors too long.  I decided that for this minute, for this one snap of their lives, they’d see a human walking through that place, not singing because he was hired and told what to sing, but just walking through there thinking about the world and singing abut it."