Work in nightclubs was interesting. There were interesting people and places, but by and large, the commercial music experience..

I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any ele….

I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other..

Realize that little things lead to bigger things..

Town after town has but one newspaper or one radio station. It is often owned by Murdoch. Yes, we don't have as much freedom of the press as we think….

A productive mistake is: (1) made in the service of mission and vision; (2) acknowledged as a mistake; (3) learned from; (4) considered valuable; (5)….

And there's a wonderful parable in the New Testament: The sower scatters seeds. Some seeds fall in the pathway and get stamped on, and they don't gro….

When you play the 12-string guitar,you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune..

I was 16 when I came to New York. I had graduated to a tenor banjo in the school jazz band, and it was kind of boring - just chords, chords, chords. ….

Folks out in the country couldn't afford to pay for anybody else to make music. They had to make their own. So the peasantry had their music, and it ….

I don't think of God as an old white man with no belly button, nor even an old black woman with no belly button. But I agree that God is something et….

Hope that there are many, many small leaders..

John McCutcheon is not only one of the best musicians in the USA, but also a great singer, songwriter, and song leader. And not just incidentally, he….

Alan Lomax is the person who I think should be given major credit for what has been called the "Folk Song Revival." My father participated with him b….

If there's a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things. The powers-that-be can break up any big thi….

The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be..

Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches..

I write a song because I want to. I think the moment you start writing it to make money, you're starting to kill yourself artistically..

We all go to different churches or no churches, we have different favorite foods, different ways of making love, different ways of doing all sorts of….

There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it without power to save it. In a small way….

I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think tha….