“For Art alone is great:The bust survives the state, The crown the potentate.”

“Things perish. Gods have passed.But song sublimely castShall citadels outlast.”

“This is a book for every fiddler who has realized halfway through playing an ancient Scottish air that the Ramones "I Wanna Be Sedated" is what folk music is really all about, and gone straight int...”

“Folk cant learn their lessons if they skip school.”

“And of a Sunday swarm the folkUnder the honeysuckle vine, Quaffing, the while they talk and smoke, The sun, the melody, the wine.”

“Every men create some sound. Be a melody in this universe not a noise! If you become a melody, the whole universe will listen to you!”