Occupation: Singer Birth: May 3, 1919 Death: January 27, 2014
When I got out of school, I spent two years just hitchhiking around. Every time I met some old farmer who could play banjo, I got him to teach me a l….
People are combining traditions like never before and finding somehow a fundamental unity for this human race of ours. I think working with each othe….
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, "….
We all go to different churches or no churches, we have different favorite foods, different ways of making love, different ways of doing all sorts of….
I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things..
When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn?.
There is no such thing as a wrong note ... just as long as you're singing along..
Sometimes you find an old tune so good you can use it several times for different purposes..
My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff..
You can't work on everything all the time, so start where you are..
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..
The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it's somewhere in there..
I believe that all technological societies tend to self-destruct. The reason is that the very things that make us a successful technological society,….
A productive mistake is: (1) made in the service of mission and vision; (2) acknowledged as a mistake; (3) learned from; (4) considered valuable; (5)….
And there's a wonderful parable in the New Testament: The sower scatters seeds. Some seeds fall in the pathway and get stamped on, and they don't gro….
Every time I read the paper those old feelings come on.We are waist deep in the Big Muddy and the big fool says to push on..
Music has always had the ability to comfort and inspire..
I get up each morning, gather my wits, pick up the paper and read the obits. If I'm not there, I know I'm not dead, so I eat a good breakfast and go ….
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….
Most scientists know what needs to be done to save our Earth. But the politicians don't listen to them. They will listen to popular pressure; the peo….
This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit..