How can you save the world you have not seen if you can't save the community you have seen? — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
If there is a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Songwriters can’t explain. You get an idea and you don’t know where it’s come from. And if you’re lucky, you have a… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Some may find them merely diverting melodies. Others may find them incitements to Red revolution. And who will say if either or… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm.… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
In a world of private property, if something isn't owned by somebody, it's going to be misused by somebody else. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I get up each morning, gather my wits, pick up the paper and read the obits. If I'm not there, I know… — 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
If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I remember someone once saying, "Pete, you know you really should take voice lessons." And I said, "Well, if I could find… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if my involvement in causes, benefits, marches, and demonstrations has made a huge difference, but I know one thing:… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Make the kind of music you love even if you never hear it on the air. This was the basic lesson I'd… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
We will never know everything. But I think if we can learn within the next few decades to face the danger we… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I try to sing many different kinds of songs. If I sing a batch of humorous songs, I'll throw in a deadly… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I would ask, "How can one have a technological society without research? How can one have research without researching dangerous areas? How… — 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,… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
If there's a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things. The… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
But if by some freak of history communism had caught up with this country, I would have been one of the first… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
If you love this land of the free, bring them home, bring them home, Bring them back from overseas. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I always knew that sooner or later there would come somebody like Woody Guthrie who could make a great song every week.… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
There is something about participating; it is almost my religion. If the world is still here in 100 years, people will know… — 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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