Do-so is more important than say-so.

My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'

The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.

I’ve found that festivals are a relatively painless way to meet people and make a few points that need making, without having to hit them over the head with too many speeches.

The American Indians were Communists. They were. Every anthropologist will tell you they were Communists. No rich, no poor. If somebody needed something the community chipped in.

I fought for peace in the fifties.