All about a human being is, it's a great big hoping machine.

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

All about a human being is, it's a great big hoping machine.

Okemah was one of the singingest, square dancingest, drinkingest, yellingest, preachingest, walkingest, talkingest, laughingest, cryingest, shootingest, fist fightingest, bleedingest, gamblingest, gun, club and razor carryingest of our ranch towns and farm towns, because it blossomed out into one of our first Oil Boom Towns.

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

Take it easy, but take it.

As I went walking That ribbon of highway I saw above me The endless skyway I saw below me The lonesome valley This land was made for you and me.