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" I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other. "

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" I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs. "

" I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life. "

" If there's something wrong, speak up! "

" I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany. "

" 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 am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches, and I do this voluntarily. "

" When you're facing an opponent over a broad front, you don't aim for the opponent's strong points, important though they may be. Pick a little outpost that you can capture and win. And then you find another place that you can capture and win it, and then you move slowly toward the big places. "

" Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live. "

" I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax. "

" Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches. "

" Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with. "

" I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody. "

" Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions. "

" If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always get people to sing with me. "

" Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business. "

" I've found that festivals are a relatively painless way to meet people and make a few points that need making, without having to hit them over the head with too many speeches. "

" 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 keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think. "

" One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties. "

" I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me. "

" 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. "

" Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. "

" My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia. "

" I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it. "

" I came along and was a teenager in the Depression, and nobody had jobs. So I went out hitchhiking, when I met a man named Woody Guthrie. He was the single biggest part of my education. "

" I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known. "