I used to agree with Kurt Vonnegut, who said that the human race has a snowball's chance in hell of being around… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
All the arts, music, the visual arts, acting and dancing arts, cooking arts, and I believe sports, will save the human race… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I would ask, "How can one have a technological society without research? How can one have research without researching dangerous areas? How… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I’ve never sung anywhere without giving the people listening to me a chance to join in - as a kid, as a… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I tell kids, don't trust the media. The media with their emphasis on fame is helping to destroy this country, helping destroy… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
People are combining traditions like never before and finding somehow a fundamental unity for this human race of ours. I think working… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's. — Pete Seeger Copy Share
In the sixties, during the Vietnam war, when anarchists and pacifists and socialists, Democrats and Republicans, decent-hearted Americans, all recoiled with horror at the… — Pete Seeger Copy Share
Now somebody will ask me, Pete, how can you prove these songs really make a difference? And I have to confess I can't prove… — Pete Seeger Copy Share
The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it's somewhere in there. — Pete Seeger Copy Share
I was about 16 years old years when my father took me to a square dance festival in North Carolina. For the first time… — Pete Seeger Copy Share
It was Rachel Carson's famous book 'Silent Spring' that got me involved with the environment. I read it in The New Yorker, in installments.… — Pete Seeger Copy Share
When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune. — Pete Seeger Copy Share
Folks out in the country couldn't afford to pay for anybody else to make music. They had to make their own. So the peasantry… — Pete Seeger Copy Share
This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit. — Pete Seeger Copy Share
There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it within our power to help save… — Pete Seeger Copy Share
And the people in the houses All went to the University And they got put in boxes Little boxes all the same, Little boxes… — Pete Seeger Copy Share
Most conservatives just want to turn back the clock to a time before the income tax - 100 years or so. I would like… — Pete Seeger Copy Share
