00:00If there's a world here in a hundred years, one of the main reasons will be music.
00:06Greenwich Village is mostly a state of mind, but in the village, everybody's young inside.
00:13The village was where the whole rest of the world looked.
00:17Joni Mitchell.
00:18Bob Dylan.
00:19Carly Simon.
00:20Phil Oaks.
00:21James Tam.
00:22Leonard Korn.
00:23Chris Christopherson.
00:24Pete Seeger.
00:25Harry Chapin.
00:26The Mamas and the Papas.
00:27Judy Collins.
00:27We had chosen to be part of a socially relevant musical cultural experience, and we were
00:36given it our best.
00:41The people who settle in the village usually are looking for something else.
00:48People that just came in with a guitar could mesmerize the whole audience with their stories,
00:51their songs, their narrative.
00:53There was also a thrust.
00:54It was the time where there was a vacuum, and we were filling the vacuum.
01:00There were no folk singers.
01:02Folk music had an emotional intensity.
01:06It had lyrical depth.
01:09It had many musical textures.
01:12We did a hootenanny with the Smothers Brothers once.
01:15We were, you know, we were sort of in awe of the Smothers Brothers, and one of them, Tommy,
01:21said, you know, we're brothers, you're sisters.
01:23We're going to do something.
01:24And Carly and I got so excited.
01:26They said, yeah, sexually.
01:32I believe that people give more and think more about good causes because of what happened
01:38in Greenwich Village.
01:39I think that was a great contribution of the music of the 60s and Greenwich Village in particular.
01:45This sense of community that we had, or this real community of artists that we all shared,
01:53was very supportive, and it worked.
01:55Plato says it's very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music in the Republic.
02:02However, there are now thousands, maybe tens of thousands of people making up songs in all corners of the world.
02:10And I'm more optimistic than I ever have been in all my life.
02:15On your heavenly hands.
02:18On your heavenly hands.
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