It's been my belief that learning how to do something in your hometown is the most important thing.

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

I used to agree with Kurt Vonnegut, who said that the human race has a snowball's chance in hell of being around a hundred years from now.

Be wary of great leaders.

I live in the country, so I get a fair amount of exercise. We heat our house with wood, so I split wood. We also live on a steep hill, and I have to rake and put in cross-stitches to keep the road from washing out when there's a big rain.

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

Some folklorists just collected dead bones from one graveyard, only to bury them in another, their library.