All of you cowboys, fight for your land.

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

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

I got started in Oklahoma. That's where I was born. Population down there is one-third Indians, one-third Negroes and one-third white people.

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 of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

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

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