RULERS should be careful about what songs are allowed to be sung.

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

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

Folks out in the country couldn't afford to pay for anybody else to make music. They had to make their own. So the peasantry had their music, and it was about a hundred years ago given the name "Folk music".

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

I'm not sure if my involvement in causes, benefits, marches, and demonstrations has made a huge difference, but I know one thing: that involvement has connected me with the good people: people with the live hearts, the live eyes, the live heads.

Singing with children in the schools has been the most rewarding experience of my life.