Occupation: Singer Birth: May 3, 1919 Death: January 27, 2014
It's a terrible thing being a patriarch. I don't even have a gray beard. But people keep calling me up for advice..
I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other..
I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody..
How can you save the world you have not seen if you can't save the community you have seen?.
Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple..
Just as with other great words, the word environment means different things. You might say that a cave woman twenty thousand years ago sweeping out t….
I never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist..
I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by..
A song is like a picture of a bird in flight; the bird was moving before the picture was taken, and no doubt continued after..
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same..
Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions..
The American Indians were Communists. They were. Every anthropologist will tell you they were Communists. No rich, no poor. If somebody needed someth….
I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color ….
There is an old Arabic proverb, 'When the king puts the poet on his payroll, he cuts off the tongue of the poet', so throughout the ages, people in p….
I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers….
I’ve found that festivals are a relatively painless way to meet people and make a few points that need making, without having to hit them over the he….
Now somebody will ask me, Pete, how can you prove these songs really make a difference? And I have to confess I can't prove a darn thing, except that….
It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with..
Honest songs aren`t written for money..
I still prefer to hear [Bob] Dylan acoustic, some of his electric songs are absolutely great. Electric music is the vernacular of the second half of ….
Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the rig….