My job, is to show folks there's a lot of good music in this world, and if used right it may help to save the planet..

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….

But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them..

I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known..

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….

In the largest sense, every work of art is protest... A lullaby is a propaganda song and any three-year-old knows it... A hymn is a controversial son….

Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business..

One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties..

I learned by transcribing songs out of the Library of Congress collection in Washington where I was working. I got a job when I just turned twenty in….

And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well..

To everything there is a season..

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….

Do-so is more important than say-so..

I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things..

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 used to agree with Kurt Vonnegut, who said that the human race has a snowball's chance in hell of being around a hundred years from now..

You can't work on everything all the time, so start where you are..

You have a right to your opinion and I've got a right to mine. Period..

And the people in the houses All went to the University And they got put in boxes Little boxes all the same, Little boxes all the same, Little boxes ….

According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm li….

We have more freedom of the press than any other country in a similar position. Even way back in the frightened '50s, Communists, for example, could ….