It's a terrible thing being a patriarch. I don't even have a gray beard. But people keep calling me up for advice.

To everything there is a season.

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

You have a right to your opinion and I've got a right to mine. Period.

In a world of private property, if something isn't owned by somebody, it's going to be misused by somebody else.

John McCutcheon is not only one of the best musicians in the USA, but also a great singer, songwriter, and song leader. And not just incidentally, he is committed to helping hard-working people everywhere to organize and push this world in a better direction.

I was about 16 years old years when my father took me to a square dance festival in North Carolina. For the first time in my life, I found there was music in my country that you never heard on the radio, and you didn't hear on the juke boxes, and in theaters. I fell in love with it, especially the long-necked banjos.