Posted by Harry Targ
“I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim. Too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard traveling. I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood…..” Woody Guthrie
“Continued study and research into the origins of the folk music of various peoples in many parts of the world revealed that there is a world body-a universal body- of folk music based upon a universal pentatonic (five tone) scale. Interested as I am in the universality of (hu)mankind- in the fundamental relationship of all peoples to one another-this idea of a universal body of music intrigued me, and I pursued it along many fascinating paths.” Paul Robeson
Let's Move Ahead: We Have a Long Way to Go
