Realize That Little Things Lead To Bigger

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.

How Can You Save The World You Have Not Seen If You Can't Save The Community You Have Seen?

I Was 16 When I Came To New York. I Had Graduated To A Tenor Banjo In The School Jazz Band, And It Was Kind Of Boring - Just Chords, Chords, Chords. Then My Father Took Me To A Mountain Music And Dance Festival In Asheville, North Carolina, And There I Saw Relatively Uneducated People Playing Great Music By Ear.

I Think Folk Music Helps Reinforce Your Sense Of History. An Old Song Makes You Think Of Times Gone By.

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.