I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things.

Parents are the hardest-working members of the population. But they do it for the highest wages. Kisses.

I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.

Anybody who wants to learn everything is pretty stupid. You learn what you can.

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

I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.

My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant songs and then arranged them for part choir and accompanied them on piano, and then told the young people of their country, "Don't change a note, this is our sacred heritage." Father said, whether it's a fiddle tune or a gospel song, learn it right off the record from the people who grew up with it. Don't just learn it from a piece of paper.