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

After visits to several Communist countries (USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Slovenia, East Germany, Vietnam, China, Cuba), I feel strongly that most "revolutionary" types around the world don't realize the importance of freedom of the press and the air, a right to peaceably assemble and discuss anything, including the dangers of such discussions.

However, the agricultural revolution took thousands of years, the Industrial Revolution took hundreds, and the information revolution only took decades. So, who knows what's going to happen in the next few decades, especially with the women's revolution.

There is no such thing as a wrong note ... just as long as you're singing along.

I was working for Alan Lomax in the Library of Congress folk song archive, and starting to realize what a wealth of different kinds of music there was in this country that you never heard on the radio.

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

Like most teachers, I'm just another sower of seeds.