"I got tired of people saying "But what can I do?" Also, the reluctance of the press to report the full details created the need to bring attention to it. So the song "Bangla Desh" was written specifically to get attention to the war prior to the concert."

"Even now I still meet waiters in Bengali restaurants who say, "When we were in the jungle fighting, it was great to know somebody out there was thinking of us.""

"The money we raised was secondary. The main thing was, we spread the word and helped get the war ended ... What we did show was that musicians and people are more humane than politicians."

"Try to realize it's all within yourself, No one else can make you change. And to see you're really only very small And life flows in within you and without you."

"Without going out of your door, You can know all things on earth. Without looking out of your window you could know the ways of heaven. The farther one travels. the less one knows, the less one really knows."

"If you're listening to this song You may think the chords are going wrong But they're not We just wrote it like that"

"...the more I learn the less I know..."

"Do what you want to do, And go where you're going to. Think for yourself 'Cause I won't be there with you."

"I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping While my guitar gently weeps."

"I don't know why nobody told you how to unfold your love I don't know how someone controlled you They bought and sold you."

"I look at the world and I notice it’s turning. While my guitar gently weeps. With every mistake we must surely be learning, Still my guitar gently weeps."

"I don't know how you were diverted You were perverted too. I don't know how you were inverted No one alerted you."

"Little darling, It's been a long cold lonely winter. Little darling, It feels like years since it's been here. Here comes the sun..."