Plagiarism Is Basic To All

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.

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.

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."

Well, It's One Of The Things That Will. Words Are Good, And Words Help Us Become The Leading Species On Earth To The Point Where We Are Now Ready To Wipe Ourselves Off The Earth. But I Think That All The Arts Are Needed, And Sports Too, And Cooking, Food, And All These Different Ways Of Communication. Smiles, Looking Into Eyes Directly, All These Different Means Of Communication Are Needed To Save This World. But Certainly A Great Melody

There's A Story Behind Every Old Ballad Or Work Song Or Nonsense Song That I Ever Knew. Sometimes It's A Fascinating Story. A Story Of People Struggling For Freedom, Struggling To Get Along In This Old World.