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….

Parents are the hardest-working members of the population. But they do it for the highest wages. Kisses..

Songwriters can’t explain. You get an idea and you don’t know where it’s come from. And if you’re lucky, you have a pencil or pen and can write it do….

If there's something wrong, speak up!.

To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence you have to be loved, to be loved y….

I try to sing many different kinds of songs. If I sing a batch of humorous songs, I'll throw in a deadly serious song. Or if I'm singing too many ser….

Music does affect your opinions. Plato is supposed to have said "It's very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music into the republic.".

Food is one of the great organizing tools..

I was never enthusiastic about being somebody who was supposed to be silent about being a member of something..

It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with..

A good song can only do good, and I am proud of the songs I have sung. I hope to be able to continue singing these songs for all who want to listen, ….

I was about 16 years old years when my father took me to a square dance festival in North Carolina. For the first time in my life, I found there was ….

This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit..

Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind o….

This banjo surrounds hate and forces it to surrender..

Did you ever want something really bad and then when you finally got it all you could do was stand there and grin at it?.

The world will be saved by people fighting for their homes..

Not everybody has to sing the melody..

My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant songs and then ar….

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson corresponded for 13 years before they died on the same day. They asked, "How can one have prosperity without commerce….

There are many people writing songs. That is absolutely wonderful. Who knows, there may be some kid in diapers and he or she might succeed in capturi….