Humans Quotes by Pete Seeger

Honest songs aren't written for money.

— Pete Seeger

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

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.

— 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…

— 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.…

— 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.

— 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…

— Pete Seeger

If there's something wrong, speak up!

— Pete Seeger

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Pete Seeger

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

— 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…

— Pete Seeger