I'd really rather put songs on people's lips than in their ears.

You have a right to your opinion and I've got a right to mine. Period.

I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by.

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

My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's.

I guess I've learned more from the Clearwater than anything else. All I did was help to plant a seed, and I didn't know what the hell I was doing.

I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart.