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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes, I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm listening to something, I'm listening to God.

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

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If there's something wrong, speak up!

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

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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.

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I feel that my whole life is a contribution.

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

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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.

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

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For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

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I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.

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Don't ask who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

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