You'd be surprised how many stupid mistakes I've made. I make stupid mistakes all the time, and some of them have been very big stupid mistakes.

Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world.

Some may find them merely diverting melodies. Others may find them incitements to Red revolution. And who will say if either or both is wrong? Not I.

Participation - that's what's gonna save the human race.

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

Music has always had the ability to comfort and inspire.

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