My Mother Playing The Violin And My

I’ve Found That Festivals Are A Relatively Painless Way To Meet People And Make A Few Points That Need Making, Without Having To Hit Them Over The Head With Too Many Speeches.

There Is An Old Arabic Proverb, 'when The King Puts The Poet On His Payroll, He Cuts Off The Tongue Of The Poet', So Throughout The Ages, People In Power Have Liked To Control Music, They Used To Throw Songwriters In Jail Throughout History, And Were Assassinated.

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

People Are Combining Traditions Like Never Before And Finding Somehow A Fundamental Unity For This Human Race Of Ours. I Think Working With Each Other As Jeff Haynes Has Done Here-we May Be Surprised To Find What Deeper Unity All Human Beings Have.

I Don't Think Of God As An Old White Man With No Belly Button, Nor Even An Old Black Woman With No Belly Button. But I Agree That God Is Something Eternal. Something Cannot Come Out Of Nothing. I Believe God Is Everything. And I Believe In Infinity.