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

Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary.

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

I have come to the conclusion that there is nothing good that doesn't have bad consequences and nothing bad that doesn't have good consequences.

I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches.

According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm listening to something I'm listening to God.

You can't work on everything all the time, so start where you are.