I feel that my whole life is a contribution.

Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same.

I always knew that sooner or later there would come somebody like Woody Guthrie who could make a great song every week. Dylan certainly had a social agenda, but he was such a good poet that most of his attempts were head and shoulders above things that I and others were trying to do. ... If I had an address, I'd send him a birthday card saying, 'keep on going.'

I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs.

You can't work on everything all the time, so start where you are.

Some folklorists just collected dead bones from one graveyard, only to bury them in another, their library.

I feel that my whole life is a contribution.