People Are Combining Traditions Like Never Before

There Is A Big, Beautiful World That Could Be Destroyed By Selfishness And Foolishness. We Musicians Have It Without Power To Save It. In A Small Way, Every Single One Of Us Counts.

Music Has Always Had The Ability To Comfort And Inspire.

Most Conservatives Just Want To Turn Back The Clock To A Time Before The Income Tax - 100 Years Or So. I Would Like To Turn The Clock Back Thousands Of Years To A Time When People Lived In Small Communities And Took Care Of Each Other.

I'm Still A Communist In The Sense That I Don't Believe The World Will Survive With The Rich Getting Richer And The Poor Getting Poorer - I Think That The Pressures Will Get So Tremendous That The Social Contract Will Just Come Apart.

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.