Aid Quote by Rebecca Pidgeon

“Western donors have an aid industry to feed, farmers”

— Dambisa Moyo

On the professional side, those 18 years on the farm instilled my love for agriculture.

— Mike Johanns

I met musician Ken Farmer in Lorne and he lent me all of his Bessie Smith blues LPs. That's when I started to sing.

— Judith Durham

We need a strong farm bill that gives assistance to farmers during times of drought, creates markets for local goods, protects our environment, and…

— Keith Ellison

I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I…

— Taylor Swift

The first songs I learned were 'It Takes a Worried Man' and Woody Guthrie's 'Grand Coulee Dam,' 'Rock Island Line' - those kind of…

— Rory Gallagher

I looked at Willie Nelson and Farm Aid as a role model; they do it every year, and it draws people together, and drawing…

— Joe Walsh

The first music I was interested in was Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys, and I listened to bluegrass religiously on the radio while…

— Porter Wagoner

When I was a kid, I went door to door in my neighborhood asking for donations to the Jewish National Fund, best known then…

— Richard Cohen

My older brother was involved in the folk movement. We would gather every weekend in Washington Park. The folk songs were so important to…

— Anne Waldman

“The “Sons of the Pioneers” are amongst America’s earliest Country/Western singing groups. One weekend we’d drive south of the border to Tijuana, Mexico and…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm.

— Gavin DeGraw