When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers.

All of us are subject to being passive to the social ills around us. It's a struggle not to become, by staying silent, an accomplice.

I was raised on Josh White, the Weavers and Pete Seeger. The music was everywhere. You'd go to a party at somebody's apartment and there would be fifty people there, singing well into the night.

The fact that there are singer-songwriters dealing with substantive issues is encouraging. It's important for young people to perceive that there are acceptable avenues of dissent, because we live in a world where dissent is hard-pressed; treated as if it were unpatriotic. I've always liked the concept of the loyal opposition. It allows for dissent to be a respectable part of the whole.

If we are going to teach the world to stop hating the different, the other, then we’re going to have to start with children.

Folk music has always contained a concern for the human condition. And since it brings people into it from different points of view, that can help illuminate what a consensus might be to important issues.

Folk Music Has Always Contained a Concern for the Human Condition.