Some may find them merely diverting melodies. Others may find them incitements to Red revolution. And who will say if either or both is wrong? Not I.

Most conservatives just want to turn back the clock to a time before the income tax - 100 years or so. I would like to turn the clock back thousands of years to a time when people lived in small communities and took care of each other.

You'd be surprised how many stupid mistakes I've made. I make stupid mistakes all the time, and some of them have been very big stupid mistakes.

I was never enthusiastic about being somebody who was supposed to be silent about being a member of something.

It's a terrible thing being a patriarch. I don't even have a gray beard. But people keep calling me up for advice.

Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary.

I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me.