I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war..

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small..

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one..

To sing is to love and affirm, to fly and to soar, to coast into the hearts of the people who listen to tell them that life is to live, tha….

Action is the antidote to despair..

Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times..

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now..

If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer..

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?.

As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come..

To sing is to praise God and the daffodils, and to praise God is to thank Him, in every note within my small range, and every color in the tones of m….

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job..

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins..

As long as we keep searching, the answers come..

I have been true to the principles of nonviolence, developing a stronger and stronger aversion to the ideologies of both the far right and the far le….

Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow..

If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both..

If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up..

I would say that I'm a nonviolent soldier. In place of weapons of violence, you have to use your mind, your heart, your sense of humor, every faculty….

Sometimes I think that it is enough to say that if we don't sit down and shut up once in a while we'll lose our minds even earlier than we had expect….

There's a consensus out that it's OK to kill when your government decides who to kill. If you kill inside the country you get in trouble. If you kill….