Occupation: Singer Birth: May 3, 1919 Death: January 27, 2014
Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first..
I was never enthusiastic about being somebody who was supposed to be silent about being a member of something..
The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be..
If there's something wrong, speak up!.
The key to the future of the world is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known..
I feel that my whole life is a contribution..
Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to pai….
I write a song because I want to. I think the moment you start writing it to make money, you're starting to kill yourself artistically..
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 ….
I don't think of God as an old white man with no belly button, nor even an old black woman with no belly button. But I agree that God is something et….
You have a right to your opinion and I've got a right to mine. Period..
I was working for Alan Lomax in the Library of Congress folk song archive, and starting to realize what a wealth of different kinds of music there wa….
Singing with children in the schools has been the most rewarding experience of my life..
Well, it's one of the things that will. Words are good, and words help us become the leading species on earth to the point where we are now ready to ….
Some may find them merely diverting melodies. Others may find them incitements to Red revolution. And who will say if either or both is wrong? Not I..
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..
Looking back, I think I tried to be too eclectic. Sometimes I'd sing thirty songs, and fifteen of them were not in English..
You'd be surprised how many stupid mistakes I've made. I make stupid mistakes all the time, and some of them have been very big stupid mistakes..
I’ve never sung anywhere without giving the people listening to me a chance to join in - as a kid, as a lefty, as a man touring the U.S.A. and the wo….
Every time I'm in the woods, i feel like I'm in church..
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….