One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties.

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

I was never enthusiastic about being somebody who was supposed to be silent about being a member of something.

John McCutcheon is not only one of the best musicians in the USA, but also a great singer, songwriter, and song leader. And not just incidentally, he is committed to helping hard-working people everywhere to organize and push this world in a better direction.

Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.

Alan Lomax is the person who I think should be given major credit for what has been called the "Folk Song Revival." My father participated with him because my father was a musicologist and urged trained musicians to learn about "the vernacular."

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.