You'd Be Surprised How Many Stupid Mistakes

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.

If There Is A World Here In A Hundred Years, It's Going To Be Saved By Tens Of Millions Of Little Things.

He [alan Lomax] Started Right Off Trying To Find People Who Could Introduce Folk Songs To City People. He Found A Young Actor Named Burl Ives And Said, "burl, You Know A Lot Of Great Country Songs Learned From Your Grandmother, Don't You Know People Would Love To Hear Them?" He Put On Radio Programs. He Persuaded Cbs To Dedicate "the School Of The Air" For One Year To American Folk Music. He'd Get Some Old Sailor To Sing An Old Sea Shanty With A Cracked Voice. Then He'd Get Me To Sing It With My Banjo.

We Will Never Know Everything. But I Think If We Can Learn Within The Next Few Decades To Face The Danger We All Are In, I Believe There Will Be Tens Of Millions, Maybe Hundreds Of Millions, Of Human Beings Working Wherever They Are To Do Something Good.

I Feel Most Spiritual When I'm Out In The Woods. I Feel Part Of Nature. Or Looking Up At The Stars. [i Used To Say] I Was An Atheist. Now I Say, It's All According To Your Definition Of God. According To My Definition Of God, I'm Not An Atheist. Because I Think God Is Everything. Whenever I Open My Eyes I'm Looking At God.