I still prefer to hear [Bob] Dylan acoustic, some of his electric songs are absolutely great. Electric music is the vernacular of the second half of the twentieth century, to use my father's old term.

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

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

Music does affect your opinions. Plato is supposed to have said "It's very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music into the republic."

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

All songwriters are links in a chain.

I learned by transcribing songs out of the Library of Congress collection in Washington where I was working. I got a job when I just turned twenty in 1939 and Alan [Lomax] needed some help. I listened to hundreds of records every week.