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.

Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.

When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.

But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.

Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.

I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.