I live in the country, so I get a fair amount of exercise. We heat our house with wood, so I split wood. We also live on a steep hill, and I have to ….

Well, normally I’m against big things. I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things. Too many things can go wrong when they get….

I believe that all technological societies tend to self-destruct. The reason is that the very things that make us a successful technological society,….

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

Looking back, I think I tried to be too eclectic. Sometimes I'd sing thirty songs, and fifteen of them were not in English..

He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young actor named Burl Ives and sai….

The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have ….

In the sixties, during the Vietnam war, when anarchists and pacifists and socialists, Democrats and Republicans, decent-hearted Americans, all recoil….

Get people to sing together and they'll act together too..

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..

I feel that my whole life is a contribution..

Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world..

I came along and was a teenager in the Depression, and nobody had jobs. So I went out hitchhiking, when I met a man named Woody Guthrie. He was the s….

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 ….

There is no such thing as a wrong note ... just as long as you're singing along..

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'.

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

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 ….

Every time I'm in the woods, i feel like I'm in church..

The world will be solved by millions of small things..

But if by some freak of history communism had caught up with this country, I would have been one of the first people thrown in jail..