Richard Burgess Quotations

We're constantly looking for ways to revive interest in our catalog, so this was a no-brainer. Bob Dylan was pointing right to our releases.

We're always going to stay on his right side.

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.

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.