The danger with the internet is that you don't need to think about music, you just search for it and you find the answer. Singing used to be part of everyday life. Women sang while pounding corn. Men sang while paddling canoes.

I never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist.

Get people to sing together and they'll act together too.

Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.

Looking back, I think I tried to be too eclectic. Sometimes I'd sing thirty songs, and fifteen of them were not in English.

This banjo surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.

I came along and was a teenager in the Depression, and nobody had jobs. So I went out hitchhiking, when I met a man named Woody Guthrie. He was the single biggest part of my education.