All Songwriters Are Links In A Chain.

In The United States, Many People Said You Can't Have Folk Music In The United States Because You Don't Have Any Peasant Class. But The Funny Thing Was, There Were Literally Thousands, Tens Of Thousands, Hundreds Of Thousands Of People Who Loved Old Time Fiddling, Ballads, Banjo Tunes, Blues Played On The Guitar, Spirituals And Gospel Hymns. These Songs And Music Didn't Fit Into Any Neat Category Of Art Music Nor Popular Music Nor Jazz. So Gradually They Said Well Let's Call It Folk Music.

The World Would Never Amount To A Hill Of Beans If People Didn't Use Their Imaginations To Think Of The Impossible.

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."

I Tell Kids, Don't Trust The Media. The Media With Their Emphasis On Fame Is Helping To Destroy This Country, Helping Destroy The Human Race. It's The Plug-in Drug.

I Came From An Intellectual Family. Most Were Doctors, Preachers, Teachers, Businessmen. My Grandfather Was A Small Businessman. His Father Was An Abolitionist Doctor, And His Father Was An Immigrant From Germany.