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….

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….

Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live..

Plagiarism is basic to all culture.

I fought for peace in the fifties..

Anybody who wants to learn everything is pretty stupid. You learn what you can..

I have come to the conclusion that there is nothing good that doesn't have bad consequences and nothing bad that doesn't have good consequences..

Sometimes you find an old tune so good you can use it several times for different purposes..

It was Rachel Carson's famous book 'Silent Spring' that got me involved with the environment. I read it in The New Yorker, in installments. Up to the….

My mother wanted me to learn how to read music. She'd given fiddles to my two older brothers, but they'd rebelled. I came along and my father said, "….

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

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….

Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same..

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

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..

My mother gave me a ukulele at age eight, and I sang the popular tunes of the day..

I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax..

It was only through the years that I realized what an absolutely extraordinarily thoughtful person Dr. King was..

A good song reminds us what we're fighting for..

I have to resist the temptation to want to learn everything. You know, you can't. You have to restrict yourself at some time, or else you find yourse….

I dreamed I saw a mighty room, the room was filled with men. And the paper they were signing said they'd never fight again..