Occupation: Singer Birth: May 3, 1919 Death: January 27, 2014
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..
The world will be saved by people fighting for their homes..
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson corresponded for 13 years before they died on the same day. They asked, "How can one have prosperity without commerce….
There are many people writing songs. That is absolutely wonderful. Who knows, there may be some kid in diapers and he or she might succeed in capturi….
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..
I would ask, "How can one have a technological society without research? How can one have research without researching dangerous areas? How can one r….
Most conservatives just want to turn back the clock to a time before the income tax - 100 years or so. I would like to turn the clock back thousands ….
RULERS should be careful about what songs are allowed to be sung..
Did you ever want something really bad and then when you finally got it all you could do was stand there and grin at it?.
I'm not sure if my involvement in causes, benefits, marches, and demonstrations has made a huge difference, but I know one thing: that involvement ha….
My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant songs and then ar….
I'd really rather put songs on people's lips than in their ears..
I was 16 when I came to New York. I had graduated to a tenor banjo in the school jazz band, and it was kind of boring - just chords, chords, chords. ….