I believe that all technological societies tend to self-destruct. The reason is that the very things that make us a successful technological society, such as our curiosity, our ambition and determination, will also cause us to fall.

The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for slavery.

Music does affect your opinions. Plato is supposed to have said "It's very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music into the republic."

If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable.

I came along and was a teenager in the Depression, and nobody had jobs. So I went out hitchhiking, when I met a man named Woody Guthrie. He was the single biggest part of my education.

A song is like a picture of a bird in flight; the bird was moving before the picture was taken, and no doubt continued after.

The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.