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

Uncle Sam took up the challenge in the year of '33 For the farmer and the factory and all of you and me. He said, "Roll along Columbia. You can ramble to the sea, But river while you're ramblin' you can do some work for me."

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

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

This land is your land, this land is my land

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

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