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- Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. — Samuel Butler
- A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. — C. S. Lewis
- All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. — Ernest Hemingway
- And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art. — Alan Lomax
- He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs. And then he went out and sang them for the audiences that we found, and he found a tremendous reaction to that. — Alan Lomax
- The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species. — Alan Lomax