
“It's hard to come back from the Balkans and not sound like a Pete Seeger song.”
All the Trouble in the World (1994)
And I said "Right."
Spoken on the Track "The Story of Reuben Clamzo" on the album One Night.
“It's hard to come back from the Balkans and not sound like a Pete Seeger song.”
All the Trouble in the World (1994)
I said "It does?" It turned out to be one of the finer beers of my entire life.
Arlo talking about his first meeting with Steve Goodman, who would perform to him "The City of New Orleans" (Live in Sydney)
I Wanna Learn a Love Song
Song lyrics, Verities & Balderdash (1974)
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
"The Singer of Folk Songs and His Conscience"
Tiresias, Ch. 7
Space Chantey (1968)
Context: You show signs of levity, and that is the one thing not permitted here. This place is for serious persons only. If you are not serious now, by hell you'll get serious pretty quick!
“There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.”
Mark Michaels Quoted in The Billboard Book of Rock Arranging (1990)
“All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.”
Variant: All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.