When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music.

"He wasn't fancy" Seeger reported after his death "He was just straightforward. He made a successful professional début at the New York City Town Hall in January 1943 during a blizzard and in 1945 had a radio show Tom Glazer's Ballad Box. Glazer recorded a number of children's records in the late 1940s and early 1950s with Young People's Records Inc.

Thomas Zachariah "Tom" Glazer (September 2 1914 – February 21 2003) was an American folk singer and songwriter known primarily as a composer of ballads including: "Because All Men Are Brothers" recorded by The Weavers and Peter Paul and Mary "Talking Inflation Blues" recorded by Bob Dylan and "A Dollar Ain't A Dollar Anymore".