This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit.

If there's a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things. The powers-that-be can break up any big thing they want. They can corrupt it or co-opt it from the inside, or they can attack it from the outside. But what are they going to do about 10 million little things? They break up two of them, and three more like them spring up!

According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm listening to something I'm listening to God.

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

Alan Lomax is the person who I think should be given major credit for what has been called the "Folk Song Revival." My father participated with him because my father was a musicologist and urged trained musicians to learn about "the vernacular."

If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable.

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