Occupation: Singer Birth: May 3, 1919 Death: January 27, 2014
I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it..
I guess I've learned more from the Clearwater than anything else. All I did was help to plant a seed, and I didn't know what the hell I was doing..
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….
At the audition, your assignment is to find something new in the song. Something you've never noticed before. A breath carried over, a thought that t….
I'd like to be remembered as the sower of seeds. That's the greatest parable in the bible as far as I'm concerned. Some seeds fall in the pathway, ge….
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.".
I tell kids, don't trust the media. The media with their emphasis on fame is helping to destroy this country, helping destroy the human race. It's th….
The first step in solving a problem is admitting there is a problem to be solved..
Participation - that's what's gonna save the human race..
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't..
And when one person taps out a beat, while another leads into the melody, or when three people discover a harmony they never knew existed, or a crowd….
Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live..
Realize that little things lead to bigger things..
Now any person who plays an acoustic guitar standing up on stage with a microphone is a folk singer. Some grandmother with a baby in her arms singing….
If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always seem to get people to sing with me..
Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eigh….
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 ….
Plagiarism is basic to all culture.
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same..
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….
When I am chopping trees out in the woods because I heat my house with wood, I feel myself right in the middle of God. Mahalia Jackson said "I have s….