I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.
Theodore BikelThroughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.
Theodore BikelYou don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.
Theodore BikelYou can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.
Theodore Bikel