Pete Seeger
Musician
1919-05-03
Quotes by Pete Seeger
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Singing with children in the schools has been the most rewarding experience of my life.
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Well, normally I'm against big things. I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things. Too many things can go wrong when they get big.— — Pete Seeger (on how he felt about attending his big 90th birthday bash last year)
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Well, normally I'm against big things. I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things. Too many things can go wrong when they get big.— — Pete Seeger (on how he felt about attending his big 90th birthday bash last year)
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Singing with children in the schools has been the most rewarding experience of my life.
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I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart.
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I've found that festivals are a relatively painless way to meet people and make a few points that need making, without having to hit them over the head with too many speeches.
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I live in the country, so I get a fair amount of exercise. We heat our house with wood, so I split wood. We also live on a steep hill, and I have to rake and put in cross-stitches to keep the road from washing out when there's a big rain.
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I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American.
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I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known.
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I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.
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When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.
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I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.
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I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches, and I do this voluntarily.
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I came along and was a teenager in the Depression, and nobody had jobs. So I went out hitchhiking, when I met a man named Woody Guthrie. He was the single biggest part of my education.
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Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
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Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
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