I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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. Up to then, I'd thought the main job to do is help the meek inherit the Earth. And I still, that's a job that's got to be done. But I realized if we didn't do something… — 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 Image
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 Image
This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
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 Image
