Take it easy, but take it.
Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.
It’s a folk singer’s job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people.
I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and set down at the side of some shady lane, and say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns.
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.
Some men rob you with a six-gun – others rob you with a fountain pen.
I love a good man outside the law, just as much as I hate a bad man inside the law.
If we fix it so’s you can’t make money on war, we’ll all forget what we’re killing folks for.
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.
The best way to get to know any bunch of people is to go and listen to their music.