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

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

Take it easy, but take it.

Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.

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

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

If we fix it so's you can't make money on war, we'll all forget what we're killing folks for.