If there's a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things. The powers-that-be can break up any big thing they want. They can corrupt it or co-opt it from the inside, or they can attack it from the outside. But what are they going to do about 10 million little things? They break up two of them, and three more like them spring up!

If there's something wrong, speak up!

Singing with children in the schools has been the most rewarding experience of my life.

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

Music has always had the ability to comfort and inspire.

Sometimes you find an old tune so good you can use it several times for different purposes.

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