The danger with the internet is that you don’t need to think about music, you just search for it and you find the answer. Singing used to be part of everyday life. Women sang while pounding corn. Men sang while paddling canoes.
Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions.
The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it’s somewhere in there.
I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by.
But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.
I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be very glad to tell you my life if you want to hear of it.
I get up each morning, gather my wits, pick up the paper and read the obits. If I’m not there, I know I’m not dead, so I eat a good breakfast and go back to bed.
Music does affect your opinions. Plato is supposed to have said “It’s very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music into the republic.”
You have a right to your opinion and I’ve got a right to mine. Period.
Honest songs aren’t written for money.
I dreamed I saw a mighty room, the room was filled with men. And the paper they were signing said they’d never fight again.
This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit.
How can you save the world you have not seen if you can’t save the community you have seen?
I fought for peace in the fifties.
Participation – that’s what’s gonna save the human race.
Town after town has but one newspaper or one radio station. It is often owned by Murdoch. Yes, we don’t have as much freedom of the press as we think we have – although the traditional freedom of speech is strongly rooted in American culture.
You’d be surprised how many stupid mistakes I’ve made. I make stupid mistakes all the time, and some of them have been very big stupid mistakes.
The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn’t have happened if it wasn’t for slavery.
I live in the country, so I get a fair amount of exercise. We heat our house with wood, so I split wood. We also live on a steep hill, and I have to rake and put in cross-stitches to keep the road from washing out when there’s a big rain.
I try to sing many different kinds of songs. If I sing a batch of humorous songs, I’ll throw in a deadly serious song. Or if I’m singing too many serious songs, I’ll throw in a ridiculous song, to mix it up.