Humanitarian Quote by Ty Segall

When my father was a young actor, it is absolutely true that the vast majority were fairly middle class. Then all of a sudden,…

— Jack Davenport

Country music, the music of the white rural working class, has often been mocked by elitists whose understanding of power and art was shaped…

— Will Shetterly

I was working for Alan Lomax in the Library of Congress folk song archive, and starting to realize what a wealth of different kinds…

— Pete Seeger

A lot of the early songs I wrote were about the experience of going to London and meeting rent boys and transvestites and drag…

— Marc Almond

I think the '60s were a time where they were singing about what was going on around them.

— Gavin Creel

The protest songs of the 1960s and 70s managed to blend political and societal views with music from the heart.

— Gregory Porter

I come from a humble background, where my family was struggling to be called middle class.

— Badshah

The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else.

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

We live in more pragmatic times than when we originally recorded those songs. But many of the dreamers of the '60s have been elected…

— Paul Stookey

I found myself thinking about the distance between the 60s and today through certain moments. Like the Henry Flynt interview with Ubuweb founder Kenny…

— David Grubbs

I love researching, whether it's old Western documentaries or old Western country singers or John Ford Westerns, which are heavily influenced by family values,…

— Clifton Collins, Jr

In the South of long ago whenever a new man appeared for work in any of the laborers gangs, he would be asked if…

— William Christopher Handy