You can't write a good song about a whorehouse unless you've been in one.

One bright sunny morning in the shadow of the steeple, by the Relief Office, I saw my people - As they stood hungry, I stood there wondering if God blessed America for me.

Left wing. Right wing. Chicken wing.

Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.

If you play more than two chords, you're showing off.

The words are the important thing. Don't worry about tunes. Take a tune, sing high when they sing low, sing fast when they sing slow, and you've got a new tune.

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.

All you can write is what you see.

Let me be known as just the man that told you something you already knew.

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

This land is made for you and me.

This machine kills fascists.

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

Life has a habit of not staying hitched. You got to ride it like you find it.

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

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

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

Love is the only medicine I believe in.

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