It was only through the years that I realized what an absolutely extraordinarily thoughtful person Dr. King was.

When I got out of school, I spent two years just hitchhiking around. Every time I met some old farmer who could play banjo, I got him to teach me a lick or two. Little by little, I put it together.

Music has always had the ability to comfort and inspire.

To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence you have to be loved, to be loved you have to love.

Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.

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."

My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's.