Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Music does affect your opinions. Plato is supposed to have said "It's very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music into… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I was 16 when I came to New York. I had graduated to a tenor banjo in the school jazz band, and… — 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 was working for Alan Lomax in the Library of Congress folk song archive, and starting to realize what a wealth of… — 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
I’ve never sung anywhere without giving the people listening to me a chance to join in - as a kid, as a… — 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
![“Make the kind of music you love even if you never hear it on the air. This was the basic lesson I'd gotten from Alan [Lomax]. Alan said, Pete, look at all this great music around. You never hear it on the radio, but it's right there, great music.” quote by Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8b0/pete-seeger-1942_air_make-the-kind-of-music-you-love-even-if_2302441.jpg)
