And This Is The Origin Of Pop

Make The Kind Of Music You Love Even If You Never Hear It On The Air. This Was The Basic Lesson I'd Gotten From Alan [lomax]. Alan Said, Pete, Look At All This Great Music Around. You Never Hear It On The Radio, But It's Right There, Great Music.

I Try To Sing Many Different Kinds Of Songs. If I Sing A Batch Of Humorous Songs, I'll Throw In A Deadly Serious Song. Or If I'm Singing Too Many Serious Songs, I'll Throw In A Ridiculous Song, To Mix It Up.

It Was Rachel Carson's Famous Book 'silent Spring' That Got Me Involved With The Environment. I Read It In The New Yorker, In Installments. Up To Then, I'd Thought The Main Job To Do Is Help The Meek Inherit The Earth. And I Still, That's A Job That's Got To Be Done. But I Realized If We Didn't Do Something Soon, What The Meek Would Inherit Would Be A Pretty Poisonous Place To Live.

A Song Is Like A Picture Of A Bird In Flight; The Bird Was Moving Before The Picture Was Taken, And No Doubt Continued After.

My Dad, The Old Professor, Used To Say, 'never Get Into An Argument About What's Folk Music And What Isn't.'