I Used To Agree With Kurt Vonnegut,

If There's A World Here In A Hundred Years, It's Going To Be Saved By Tens Of Millions Of Little Things. The Powers-that-be Can Break Up Any Big Thing They Want. They Can Corrupt It Or Co-opt It From The Inside, Or They Can Attack It From The Outside. But What Are They Going To Do About 10 Million Little Things? They Break Up Two Of Them, And Three More Like Them Spring Up!

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.

There Is An Old Arabic Proverb, 'when The King Puts The Poet On His Payroll, He Cuts Off The Tongue Of The Poet', So Throughout The Ages, People In Power Have Liked To Control Music, They Used To Throw Songwriters In Jail Throughout History, And Were Assassinated.

To Live You Have To Experiment, To Have The Ability To Experiment You Have To Have Confidence, To Have Confidence You Have To Be Loved, To Be Loved You Have To Love.

The Real Meaning Of Courage Was The Personal Sacrifice Of Rosa Parks And Martin Luther King.