Like most teachers, I'm just another sower of seeds.

The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.

Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties.

One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties.

Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions.

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

I was about 16 years old years when my father took me to a square dance festival in North Carolina. For the first time in my life, I found there was music in my country that you never heard on the radio, and you didn't hear on the juke boxes, and in theaters. I fell in love with it, especially the long-necked banjos.