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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 Was Working For Alan Lomax In The Library Of Congress Folk Song Archive, And Starting To Realize What A Wealth Of Different Kinds Of Music There Was In This Country That You Never Heard On The Radio.

I Write A Song Because I Want To. I Think The Moment You Start Writing It To Make Money, You're Starting To Kill Yourself Artistically.

I Always Knew That Sooner Or Later There Would Come Somebody Like Woody Guthrie Who Could Make A Great Song Every Week. Dylan Certainly Had A Social Agenda, But He Was Such A Good Poet That Most Of His Attempts Were Head And Shoulders Above Things That I And Others Were Trying To Do. ... If I Had An Address, I'd Send Him A Birthday Card Saying, 'keep On Going.'

Songwriters Can’t Explain. You Get An Idea And You Don’t Know Where It’s Come From. And If You’re Lucky, You Have A Pencil Or Pen And Can Write It Down.