It was Rachel Carson's famous book 'Silent Spring' that got me involved with the environment. I read it in The New Yorker,… — 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… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
John McCutcheon is not only one of the best musicians in the USA, but also a great singer, songwriter, and song leader.… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it without power to save… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I guess I've learned more from the Clearwater than anything else. All I did was help to plant a seed, and I… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I learned by transcribing songs out of the Library of Congress collection in Washington where I was working. I got a job… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
My job, is to show folks there's a lot of good music in this world, and if used right it may help… — 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
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.… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
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
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