Be Wary Of Great Leaders.

Again, I Say I Will Be Glad To Tell What Songs I Have Ever Sung, Because Singing Is My Business.

He [alan Lomax] Started Right Off Trying To Find People Who Could Introduce Folk Songs To City People. He Found A Young Actor Named Burl Ives And Said, "burl, You Know A Lot Of Great Country Songs Learned From Your Grandmother, Don't You Know People Would Love To Hear Them?" He Put On Radio Programs. He Persuaded Cbs To Dedicate "the School Of The Air" For One Year To American Folk Music. He'd Get Some Old Sailor To Sing An Old Sea Shanty With A Cracked Voice. Then He'd Get Me To Sing It With My Banjo.

You'd Be Surprised How Many Stupid Mistakes I've Made. I Make Stupid Mistakes All The Time, And Some Of Them Have Been Very Big Stupid Mistakes.

And There's A Wonderful Parable In The New Testament: The Sower Scatters Seeds. Some Seeds Fall In The Pathway And Get Stamped On, And They Don't Grow. Some Fall On The Rocks, And They Don't Grow. But Some Seeds Fall On Fallow Ground, And They Grow And Multiply A Thousandfold. Who Knows Where Some Good Little Thing That You've Done May Bring Results Years Later That You Never Dreamed Of?

Some Folklorists Just Collected Dead Bones From One Graveyard, Only To Bury Them In Another, Their Library.