Believe Quotes by Pete Seeger

9 Believe quotes by Pete Seeger

Pete Seeger’s nine statements on belief resonate with the cadence of folk tradition. They convey a simple, earnest conviction that music and hope can move people together.

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Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions.

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I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me.

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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…

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

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Song, songs kept them going and going; They didn't realize the millions of seeds they were sowing. They were singing in marches,…

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All the arts, music, the visual arts, acting and dancing arts, cooking arts, and I believe sports, will save the human race…

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We will never know everything. But I think if we can learn within the next few decades to face the danger we…

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I believe that all technological societies tend to self-destruct. The reason is that the very things that make us a successful technological…

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

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Honest songs aren't written for money.

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My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's.

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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…

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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…

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The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it's somewhere in there.

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

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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.…

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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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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…

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If there's something wrong, speak up!

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This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit.

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There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it within our power to help save…

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And the people in the houses All went to the University And they got put in boxes Little boxes all the same, Little boxes…

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

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Most conservatives just want to turn back the clock to a time before the income tax - 100 years or so. I would like…

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