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Just As With Other Great Words, The Word Environment Means Different Things. You Might Say That A Cave Woman Twenty Thousand Years Ago Sweeping Out The Cave Was Improving The Environment. Many People Improving The Environment Think Only In Terms Of The Air They Breathe In Their Hometown And The Water In The Aquifer Under Their Hometown. My Guess Is Very Few Are Thinking Centuries Ahead Or Thousand Of Years Ahead, But That's What We Have To Do.

Way Back In The Old Days, Say In Europe Of The Middle Ages, You Had An Aristocracy, And They Could Afford To Pay For Musicians. The Kings And Queens Had Musicians In The Castles, And That Developed Into Symphony Orchestras And What We Call "classical Music" Now.

I Was Working For Alan Lomax In The Library Of Congress Folk Song Archive, And Starting To Realize What A Wealth Of Different Kinds Of Music There Was In This Country That You Never Heard On The Radio.

I Try To Sing Many Different Kinds Of Songs. If I Sing A Batch Of Humorous Songs, I'll Throw In A Deadly Serious Song. Or If I'm Singing Too Many Serious Songs, I'll Throw In A Ridiculous Song, To Mix It Up.

In A World Of Private Property, If Something Isn't Owned By Somebody, It's Going To Be Misused By Somebody Else.