If you play more than two chords, you're showing off.

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

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.

I have decided long ago that my songs and ballads would not get the hugs and kisses of the capitalistic experts.

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

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

You oil field workers, come and listen to me I'm goin' to tell you a story about old John D. That company union made a fool out of me. That company union don't charge no dues It leaves you a-singing them Rockefeller blues. That company union made a fool out of me. Takes that good ole C.I.O., boys To keep that oil a-rollin', rollin' over the sea. Takes that good ole C.I.O., boys To keep that oil a-rollin' over the sea.