“That's super-important to us. We're a part of the Smithsonian, the national museum of the United States. We need to be taken seriously. At the core of it, we're an educational entity.”
“There's a large segment of the population that doesn't realize what an influence Folkways had on a number of bands that they listen to. And from the Folkways point of view, this really carries on the folk tradition -- the idea that it's an oral history and everything is passed from generation to generation.”