My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.

I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

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

John McCutcheon is not only one of the best musicians in the USA, but also a great singer, songwriter, and song leader. And not just incidentally, he is committed to helping hard-working people everywhere to organize and push this world in a better direction.

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

I learned by transcribing songs out of the Library of Congress collection in Washington where I was working. I got a job when I just turned twenty in 1939 and Alan [Lomax] needed some help. I listened to hundreds of records every week.

The American Indians were Communists. They were. Every anthropologist will tell you they were Communists. No rich, no poor. If somebody needed something the community chipped in.