We're a superpower with a Third World grid.
Anyone who used more than three chords is just showing off.
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.
Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.
I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work. And the songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you.
Some men rob you with a six-gun -- others rob you with a fountain pen.
When a baby first looks at you. . . when it laughs that deep, unselfconscious gurgle; or when it cries and you pick it up and it clings sobbing to you. . . then you are-happy is not the precise word-filled.
We all come to this planet as spiritual beings destined to experience a variety of challenges and situation in order to grow and evolve spiritually.
Wherever it is resisted, slaver dies away and freedom grows.
Growing up, my brother and I were begging for attention.