If there is a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things.

Make the kind of music you love even if you never hear it on the air. This was the basic lesson I'd gotten from Alan [Lomax]. Alan said, Pete, look at all this great music around. You never hear it on the radio, but it's right there, great music.

I used to agree with Kurt Vonnegut, who said that the human race has a snowball's chance in hell of being around a hundred years from now.

I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by.

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

The first step in solving a problem is admitting there is a problem to be solved.

Did you ever want something really bad and then when you finally got it all you could do was stand there and grin at it?