People think they're listen to me, but they're listening to him. It's a new way to do the Milli Vanilli. Then, he had just won the nation's highest cultural honors, the Kennedy Center Honors and the National Medal of Art. This year, Seeger was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and honored by Harvard University, out of which he dropped in 1938 to become a folk singer. Along the way, he has recorded about 60 albums and perhaps become the conscience of our country.
Little miracles happen all the time.
The Hudson River between Yonkers and the Catskills is clean, where 20 years ago lumps of this and that were floating along with the toilet paper. And if we keep pushing, it will be clean to swim in New York. In March of 1995, I asked if the recent honors had changed anything. All my life, I've been protected by my radical reputation. People were afraid to talk to me.