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

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 good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that.

I ain't a communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life.

I better quit my talking 'cause I told you all I know But please remember, pardner, wherever you may go The people are building a peaceful world, and when the job is done, That'll be the biggest thing that man has ever done.

Take it easy, but take it.

Now as through this world I ramble, I see lots of funny men, Some rob you with a six gun, And some 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 human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine.