All you can write is what you see.

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

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

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.

All of you cowboys, fight for your land.

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 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.