Pete Seeger

If there's something wrong, speak up!

— Pete Seeger

Not everybody has to sing the melody.

— Pete Seeger

All songwriters are links in a chain.

— Pete Seeger

Food is one of the great organizing tools.

— Pete Seeger

A good song reminds us what we're fighting for.

— Pete Seeger

Realize that little things lead to bigger things.

— Pete Seeger

I fought for peace in the fifties.

— Pete Seeger

But if two and two and fifty make a million,...

— Pete Seeger

Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.

— Pete Seeger

Every time I'm in the woods, i feel like I'm in church

— Pete Seeger

My mother gave me a ukulele at age eight, and I sang the popular tunes of the day.

— Pete Seeger

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

— Pete Seeger

Sometimes you find an old tune so good you can use it several times for different purposes.

— Pete Seeger

Participation - that's what's gonna save the human race.

— Pete Seeger

The first step in solving a problem is admitting there is a problem to be solved.

— Pete Seeger

The first country conquered by any dictator is his own country.

— Pete Seeger

When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of…

— Pete Seeger

Most scientists know what needs to be done to save our Earth. But the politicians don't listen to them. They will listen…

— Pete Seeger

Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary.

— Pete Seeger

If there is a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things.

— Pete Seeger

Music does affect your opinions. Plato is supposed to have said "It's very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music into…

— Pete Seeger

But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.

— Pete Seeger

I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or…

— Pete Seeger

The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.

— Pete Seeger

I don't think of God as an old white man with no belly button, nor even an old black woman with no…

— Pete Seeger

I was about 16 years old years when my father took me to a square dance festival in North Carolina. For the…

— Pete Seeger

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson corresponded for 13 years before they died on the same day. They asked, "How can one have…

— Pete Seeger

I remember someone once saying, "Pete, you know you really should take voice lessons." And I said, "Well, if I could find…

— Pete Seeger

Alan Lomax is the person who I think should be given major credit for what has been called the "Folk Song Revival."…

— Pete Seeger

I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the…

— Pete Seeger

There is an old Arabic proverb, 'When the king puts the poet on his payroll, he cuts off the tongue of the…

— Pete Seeger

John McCutcheon is not only one of the best musicians in the USA, but also a great singer, songwriter, and song leader.…

— Pete Seeger

“The nice thing about poetry is that you’re always stretching the definitions of words. Lawyers and scientists and scholars of one sort…

— Pete Seeger

In the United States, many people said you can't have folk music in the United States because you don't have any peasant…

— Pete Seeger

There is something about participating; it is almost my religion. If the world is still here in 100 years, people will know…

— Pete Seeger

There are many people writing songs. That is absolutely wonderful. Who knows, there may be some kid in diapers and he or…

— Pete Seeger

Well, it's one of the things that will. Words are good, and words help us become the leading species on earth to…

— Pete Seeger

My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant…

— Pete Seeger

I would ask, "How can one have a technological society without research? How can one have research without researching dangerous areas? How…

— Pete Seeger

Just as with other great words, the word environment means different things. You might say that a cave woman twenty thousand years…

— Pete Seeger