Take it easy, but take it..

Anyone who used more than three chords is just showing off..

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 go….

Life's pretty tough . . . you're lucky if you live through it..

I love a good man outside the law, just as much as I hate a bad man inside the law..

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….

Some men rob you with a six-gun -- others rob you with a fountain pen..

The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a huma….

It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people.

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 ma….

The best way to get to know any bunch of people is to go and listen to their music..

As I went walking I saw a sign there And on the sign it said "No Trespassing." But on the other side it didn't say nothing, That side was made for yo….

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..

One day we'll all find out that all of our songs was just little notes in a great big song!.

Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That ….

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

I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and set down at the….

A song ain't nothing but a conversation fixed up to where you can talk it over and over without getting tired of it..

Life has a habit of not staying hitched. You got to ride it like you find it..

All about a human being is, it's a great big hoping machine..

There's several ways of saying what's on your mind. And in states and counties where it ain't too healthy to talk too loud, speak your mind, or even ….