--- title: "25 Ifs Quotes By Pete Seeger" description: "25 Ifs quotes by Pete Seeger. Plus more from Pete Seeger and more Ifs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/796/pete-seeger-1942_fifty_but-if-two-and-two-and-fifty-make-a-mill_1878293.png" --- > [But if two and two and fifty make a million,...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/but-if-two-and-two-and-fifty-make-a-million/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/796/pete-seeger-1942_fifty_but-if-two-and-two-and-fifty-make-a-mill_1878293.png) > [How can you save the world you have not seen if you can't save the community you have seen?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/how-can-you-save-the-world-you-have-not-seen-if-you-can-t-save-the/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d20/pete-seeger-1942_community_how-can-you-save-the-world-you-have-not_1220395.png) > [Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/technology-will-save-us-if-it-doesn-t-wipe-us-out-first/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71c/pete-seeger-1942_firsts_technology-will-save-us-if-it-doesn-t-wi_590268.png) > [ If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when \[Dylan\] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/if-i-had-an-axe-on-the-evening-at-newport-when-dylan-broke-out-the/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59d/pete-seeger-1942_broke_if-i-had-an-axe-on-the-evening-at-newpor_1599122.png) > [If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/if-i-ve-got-a-talent-it-s-for-picking-the-right-song-at-the-right/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90c/pete-seeger-1942_audience_if-i-ve-got-a-talent-it-s-for-picking-th_2146176.png) > [But if by some freak of history communism had caught up with this country, I would have been one of the first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/but-if-by-some-freak-of-history-communism-had-caught-up-with-this/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ce/pete-seeger-1942_caught_but-if-by-some-freak-of-history-communis_2099864.png) > [I get up each morning, gather my wits, pick up the paper and read the obits. If I'm not there, I know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/i-get-up-each-morning-gather-my-wits-pick-up-the-paper-and-read-the/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a1/pete-seeger-1942_bed_i-get-up-each-morning-gather-my-wits-pic_1082556.png) > [In a world of private property, if something isn't owned by somebody, it's going to be misused by somebody else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/in-a-world-of-private-property-if-something-isn-t-owned-by-somebody/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/51c/pete-seeger-1942_ifs_in-a-world-of-private-property-if-someth_660134.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) > [If you love this land of the free, bring them home, bring them home, Bring them back from overseas.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/if-you-love-this-land-of-the-free-bring-them-home-bring-them-home/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b73/pete-seeger-1942_antiwar_if-you-love-this-land-of-the-free-bring_2271538.png) > [The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/the-good-and-bad-are-all-tangled-up-together-american-popular-music/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/002/pete-seeger-1942_african_the-good-and-bad-are-all-tangled-up-toge_1970499.png) > [I try to sing many different kinds of songs. If I sing a batch of humorous songs, I'll throw in a deadly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/i-try-to-sing-many-different-kinds-of-songs-if-i-sing-a-batch-of/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/823/pete-seeger-1942_batch_i-try-to-sing-many-different-kinds-of-so_2097590.png) > [We will never know everything. But I think if we can learn within the next few decades to face the danger we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/we-will-never-know-everything-but-i-think-if-we-can-learn-within-the/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/144/pete-seeger-1942_believe_we-will-never-know-everything-but-i-thin_725658.png) > [I always knew that sooner or later there would come somebody like Woody Guthrie who could make a great song every week.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/i-always-knew-that-sooner-or-later-there-would-come-somebody-like/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f2/pete-seeger-1942_addresses_i-always-knew-that-sooner-or-later-there_2761376.png) > [I'm not sure if my involvement in causes, benefits, marches, and demonstrations has made a huge difference, but I know one thing:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/i-m-not-sure-if-my-involvement-in-causes-benefits-marches-and/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a4/pete-seeger-1942_benefits_i-m-not-sure-if-my-involvement-in-causes_2435273.png) > [Make the kind of music you love even if you never hear it on the air. This was the basic lesson I'd…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/make-the-kind-of-music-you-love-even-if-you-never-hear-it-on-the-air/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b0/pete-seeger-1942_air_make-the-kind-of-music-you-love-even-if_2302441.png) > [I remember someone once saying, "Pete, you know you really should take voice lessons." And I said, "Well, if I could find…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/i-remember-someone-once-saying-pete-you-know-you-really-should-take/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/232/pete-seeger-1942_belly_i-remember-someone-once-saying-pete-you_588043.png) > [If there's a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/if-there-s-a-world-here-in-a-hundred-years-it-s-going-to-be-saved-by/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a22/pete-seeger-1942_big-things_if-there-s-a-world-here-in-a-hundred-yea_568146.jpg) > [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 would ask, "How can one have a technological society without research? How can one have research without researching dangerous areas? How…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/i-would-ask-how-can-one-have-a-technological-society-without-research/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8dc/pete-seeger-1942_areas_i-would-ask-how-can-one-have-a-technolog_1638520.jpg) > [There is something about participating; it is almost my religion. If the world is still here in 100 years, people will know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/there-is-something-about-participating-it-is-almost-my-religion-if/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a17/pete-seeger-1942_agree_there-is-something-about-participating-i_2866718.png) > [The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/the-world-would-never-amount-to-a-hill-of-beans-if-people-didn-t-use/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83f/pete-seeger-1942_amount_the-world-would-never-amount-to-a-hill-o_2565132.png) > [If there is a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/if-there-is-a-world-here-in-a-hundred-years-it-s-going-to-be-saved-by/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e0/pete-seeger-1942_hundred_if-there-is-a-world-here-in-a-hundred-ye_1845960.png) > [Some may find them merely diverting melodies. Others may find them incitements to Red revolution. And who will say if either or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/some-may-find-them-merely-diverting-melodies-others-may-find-them/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b6/pete-seeger-1942_either-or_some-may-find-them-merely-diverting-melo_451813.png) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/songwriters-can-t-explain-you-get-an-idea-and-you-don-t-know-where-it/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e2/pete-seeger-1942_ideas_songwriters-can-t-explain-you-get-an-ide_943194.png) ## Other authors on Ifs ## 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/ifs/pete-seeger/#itemlist", "name": "25 Ifs Quotes By Pete Seeger", "numberOfItems": 25, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "But if two and two and fifty make a million,...", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Pete Seeger" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/but-if-two-and-two-and-fifty-make-a-million/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/796/pete-seeger-1942_fifty_but-if-two-and-two-and-fifty-make-a-mill_1878293.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/796/pete-seeger-1942_fifty_but-if-two-and-two-and-fifty-make-a-mill_1878293.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/796/pete-seeger-1942_fifty_but-if-two-and-two-and-fifty-make-a-mill_1878293.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“But if two and two and fifty make a million,...” — Pete Seeger", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "How can you save the world you have not seen if you can't save the community you have seen?", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Pete Seeger" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/how-can-you-save-the-world-you-have-not-seen-if-you-can-t-save-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d20/pete-seeger-1942_community_how-can-you-save-the-world-you-have-not_1220395.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d20/pete-seeger-1942_community_how-can-you-save-the-world-you-have-not_1220395.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d20/pete-seeger-1942_community_how-can-you-save-the-world-you-have-not_1220395.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“How can you save the world you have not seen if you can't save the community you have seen?” — Pete Seeger", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Pete Seeger" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/technology-will-save-us-if-it-doesn-t-wipe-us-out-first/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71c/pete-seeger-1942_firsts_technology-will-save-us-if-it-doesn-t-wi_590268.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71c/pete-seeger-1942_firsts_technology-will-save-us-if-it-doesn-t-wi_590268.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71c/pete-seeger-1942_firsts_technology-will-save-us-if-it-doesn-t-wi_590268.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.” — Pete Seeger", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Pete Seeger" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/if-i-had-an-axe-on-the-evening-at-newport-when-dylan-broke-out-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59d/pete-seeger-1942_broke_if-i-had-an-axe-on-the-evening-at-newpor_1599122.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59d/pete-seeger-1942_broke_if-i-had-an-axe-on-the-evening-at-newpor_1599122.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59d/pete-seeger-1942_broke_if-i-had-an-axe-on-the-evening-at-newpor_1599122.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“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", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. 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