I Dreamed I Saw A Mighty Room,

And There's A Wonderful Parable In The New Testament: The Sower Scatters Seeds. Some Seeds Fall In The Pathway And Get Stamped On, And They Don't Grow. Some Fall On The Rocks, And They Don't Grow. But Some Seeds Fall On Fallow Ground, And They Grow And Multiply A Thousandfold. Who Knows Where Some Good Little Thing That You've Done May Bring Results Years Later That You Never Dreamed Of?

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.

And This Is The Origin Of Pop Music: It's A Professional Music Which Draws Upon Both Folk Music And Fine Arts Music As Well.

I Was Working For Alan Lomax In The Library Of Congress Folk Song Archive, And Starting To Realize What A Wealth Of Different Kinds Of Music There Was In This Country That You Never Heard On The Radio.

I'm Not Sure If My Involvement In Causes, Benefits, Marches, And Demonstrations Has Made A Huge Difference, But I Know One Thing: That Involvement Has Connected Me With The Good People: People With The Live Hearts, The Live Eyes, The Live Heads.