“This machine kills fascists.”

“Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.”

“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.”

“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. Theirs, the wasted songs of a superstitious nightmare. And without their music and ideological miscarriages to compare our songs of freedom to, we'd not have any opposite to compare music with --- and like the drifting wind, hitting against no obstacle, we'd never know its speed, its power....”

“Anyone who uses more than two chords is just showing off.”

“Take it easy, but take it.”

“I know the police cause you troubleThey cause trouble everywhereBut when you die and go to heavenYou find no policeman there”