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 live in the country, so I get a fair amount of exercise. We heat our house with wood, so I split wood. We also live on a steep hill, and I have to rake and put in cross-stitches to keep the road from washing out when there's a big rain.

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

And the people in the houses All went to the University And they got put in boxes Little boxes all the same, Little boxes all the same, Little boxes all the same, Little boxes all the same And they all come out all the same.

It was only through the years that I realized what an absolutely extraordinarily thoughtful person Dr. King was.

This banjo surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'