The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.

- Alan Lomax

Folk Music is the map of singing.

- Alan Lomax

People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads a…

- Alan Lomax

I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my n…

- Alan Lomax

We now have cultural machines so powerful that one singer can reach everybody in the world, and make all the other singers feel inferior because they…

- Alan Lomax

The modern computer with all its various gadgets and wonderful electronic facilities now makes it possible to preserve and reinvigorate all the cultu…

- Alan Lomax

And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first rea…

- Alan Lomax

The essence of America lies not in the headlined heroes...but in the everyday folks who live and die unknown, yet leave their dreams as legacies

- Alan Lomax