You Have A Right To Your Opinion

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.

If There's A World Here In A Hundred Years, It's Going To Be Saved By Tens Of Millions Of Little Things. The Powers-that-be Can Break Up Any Big Thing They Want. They Can Corrupt It Or Co-opt It From The Inside, Or They Can Attack It From The Outside. But What Are They Going To Do About 10 Million Little Things? They Break Up Two Of Them, And Three More Like Them Spring Up!

Alan Lomax Is The Person Who I Think Should Be Given Major Credit For What Has Been Called The "folk Song Revival." My Father Participated With Him Because My Father Was A Musicologist And Urged Trained Musicians To Learn About "the Vernacular."

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.

You Have A Right To Your Opinion And I've Got A Right To Mine. Period.