The real meaning of courage was the personal sacrifice of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King..

I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and….

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….

In the United States, many people said you can't have folk music in the United States because you don't have any peasant class. But the funny thing w….

If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned o….

All songwriters are links in a chain..

If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable..

I never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist..

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

I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by..

How can you save the world you have not seen if you can't save the community you have seen?.

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..

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..

After visits to several Communist countries (USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Slovenia, East Germany, Vietnam, China, Cuba), I feel strongly that most "….

The American Indians were Communists. They were. Every anthropologist will tell you they were Communists. No rich, no poor. If somebody needed someth….

Some folklorists just collected dead bones from one graveyard, only to bury them in another, their library..

Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions..

Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple..

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….

It's a terrible thing being a patriarch. I don't even have a gray beard. But people keep calling me up for advice..

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….