Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple.

People are combining traditions like never before and finding somehow a fundamental unity for this human race of ours. I think working with each other as Jeff Haynes has done here-we may be surprised to find what deeper unity all human beings have.

The world will be solved by millions of small things.

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'

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.

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

Music does affect your opinions. Plato is supposed to have said "It's very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music into the republic."