Phil Ochs on folk music - circa 1969

"Before the days of television and mass media, the folksinger was often a traveling newspaper spreading tales through music. There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song."
- Phil Ochs

And Phil put this in his liner notes:
"A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once, but a song is learned by heart and repeated over and over." -- Joe Hill