The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice..

The essence of America lies not in the headlined heroes...but in the everyday folks who live and die unknown, yet leave their dreams as legacies.

We now have cultural machines so powerful that one singer can reach everybody in the world, and make all the other singers feel inferior because they….

People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads a….

I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my n….

And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first rea….

The modern computer with all its various gadgets and wonderful electronic facilities now makes it possible to preserve and reinvigorate all the cultu….

Folk Music is the map of singing..