--- title: "10 Helping Quotes By Pete Seeger" description: "10 Helping quotes by Pete Seeger. Plus more from Pete Seeger and more Helping sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/edd/pete-seeger-1942_beautiful_there-is-a-big-beautiful-world-that-coul_220848.png" --- > [There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it within our power to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/there-is-a-big-beautiful-world-that-could-be-destroyed-by-selfishness/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/edd/pete-seeger-1942_beautiful_there-is-a-big-beautiful-world-that-coul_220848.png) > [I guess I've learned more from the Clearwater than anything else. All I did was help to plant a seed, and I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/i-guess-i-ve-learned-more-from-the-clearwater-than-anything-else-all/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/137/pete-seeger-1942_hell_i-guess-i-ve-learned-more-from-the-clear_2098031.png) > [I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/i-think-folk-music-helps-reinforce-your-sense-of-history-an-old-song/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/575/pete-seeger-1942_folk_i-think-folk-music-helps-reinforce-your_976967.png) > [I tell kids, don't trust the media. The media with their emphasis on fame is helping to destroy this country, helping destroy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/i-tell-kids-don-t-trust-the-media-the-media-with-their-emphasis-on/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/79c/pete-seeger-1942_children_i-tell-kids-don-t-trust-the-media-the-me_3199254.png) > [My job, is to show folks there's a lot of good music in this world, and if used right it may help…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/my-job-is-to-show-folks-there-s-a-lot-of-good-music-in-this-world-and/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3e/pete-seeger-1942_folks_my-job-is-to-show-folks-there-s-a-lot-of_2372860.png) > [There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it without power to save…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/there-is-a-big-beautiful-world-that-could-be-destroyed-by-selfishness-2/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/068/pete-seeger-1942_beautiful_there-is-a-big-beautiful-world-that-coul_1610931.png) > [It was Rachel Carson's famous book 'Silent Spring' that got me involved with the environment. I read it in The New Yorker,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/it-was-rachel-carson-s-famous-book-silent-spring-that-got-me-involved/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f00/pete-seeger-1942_book_it-was-rachel-carson-s-famous-book-silen_107549.jpg) > [I learned by transcribing songs out of the Library of Congress collection in Washington where I was working. I got a job…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/i-learned-by-transcribing-songs-out-of-the-library-of-congress/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/29d/pete-seeger-1942_collections_i-learned-by-transcribing-songs-out-of-t_2288735.png) > [John McCutcheon is not only one of the best musicians in the USA, but also a great singer, songwriter, and song leader.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/john-mccutcheon-is-not-only-one-of-the-best-musicians-in-the-usa-but/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/927/pete-seeger-1942_committed_john-mccutcheon-is-not-only-one-of-the-b_995603.png) > [Well, it's one of the things that will. Words are good, and words help us become the leading species on earth to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/well-it-s-one-of-the-things-that-will-words-are-good-and-words-help/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4e/pete-seeger-1942_art_well-it-s-one-of-the-things-that-will-wo_1698778.jpg) ## Other authors on Helping ## More by Pete Seeger > [Honest songs aren't written for money.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/honest-songs-aren-t-written-for-money/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) > [My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/my-father-charles-seeger-got-me-into-the-communist-movement-he-backed/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/in-the-sixties-during-the-vietnam-war-when-anarchists-and-pacifists/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/now-somebody-will-ask-me-pete-how-can-you-prove-these-songs-really/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) > [The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it's somewhere in there.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/the-truth-is-a-rabbit-in-a-bramble-patch-all-you-can-do-is-circle/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) > [I was about 16 years old years when my father took me to a square dance festival in North Carolina. For the first time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/i-was-about-16-years-old-years-when-my-father-took-me-to-a-square/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) > [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/it-was-rachel-carson-s-famous-book-silent-spring-that-got-me-involved/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 tune.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/when-you-play-the-12-string-guitar-you-spend-half-your-life-tuning/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/folks-out-in-the-country-couldn-t-afford-to-pay-for-anybody-else-to/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) > [If there's something wrong, speak up!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/if-there-s-something-wrong-speak-up/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) > [This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/this-world-is-so-full-of-hypocrisy-the-only-way-you-can-be-honest-is/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) > [There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it within our power to help save…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/there-is-a-big-beautiful-world-that-could-be-destroyed-by-selfishness/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) > [And the people in the houses All went to the University And they got put in boxes Little boxes all the same, Little boxes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/and-the-people-in-the-houses-all-went-to-the-university-and-they-got/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) > [A good song reminds us what we're fighting for.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/a-good-song-reminds-us-what-we-re-fighting-for/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) > [Most conservatives just want to turn back the clock to a time before the income tax - 100 years or so. I would like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/most-conservatives-just-want-to-turn-back-the-clock-to-a-time-before/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/helping/pete-seeger/#itemlist", "name": "10 Helping Quotes By Pete Seeger", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it within our power to help save it. 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