I Always Knew That Sooner Or Later

Way Back In The Old Days, Say In Europe Of The Middle Ages, You Had An Aristocracy, And They Could Afford To Pay For Musicians. The Kings And Queens Had Musicians In The Castles, And That Developed Into Symphony Orchestras And What We Call "classical Music" Now.

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.

I Believe That All Technological Societies Tend To Self-destruct. The Reason Is That The Very Things That Make Us A Successful Technological Society, Such As Our Curiosity, Our Ambition And Determination, Will Also Cause Us To Fall.

John Adams And Thomas Jefferson Corresponded For 13 Years Before They Died On The Same Day. They Asked, "how Can One Have Prosperity Without Commerce? How Can One Have Commerce Without Luxury? How Can One Have Luxury Without Corruption? How Can You Have Corruption Without The End Of The Republic?" And They Really Didn't Know The Answer.

And When One Person Taps Out A Beat, While Another Leads Into The Melody, Or When Three People Discover A Harmony They Never Knew Existed, Or A Crowd Joins In On A Chorus As Though To Raise The Ceiling A Few Feet Higher, Then They Also Know There Is Hope For The World.