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
In the largest sense, every work of art is protest... A lullaby is a propaganda song and any three-year-old knows it... A… — 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 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
However, the agricultural revolution took thousands of years, the Industrial Revolution took hundreds, and the information revolution only took decades. So, who… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I have to resist the temptation to want to learn everything. You know, you can't. You have to restrict yourself at some… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson corresponded for 13 years before they died on the same day. They asked, "How can one have… — 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
There are many people writing songs. That is absolutely wonderful. Who knows, there may be some kid in diapers and he or… — 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
And there's a wonderful parable in the New Testament: The sower scatters seeds. Some seeds fall in the pathway and get stamped… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Most scientists know what needs to be done to save our Earth. But the politicians don't listen to them. They will listen… — 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
Throughout history the leaders of the countries have been very particular about what songs should be sung. We know the power of… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I guess I've learned more from the Clearwater than anything else. All I did was help to plant a seed, and I… — 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
And when one person taps out a beat, while another leads into the melody, or when three people discover a harmony they… — 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
![“He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young actor named Burl Ives and said, "Burl, you know a lot of great country songs learned from your grandmother, don't you know people would love to hear them?" He put on radio…” quote by Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/59e/pete-seeger-1942_actors_he-alan-lomax-started-right-off-trying-t_1712245.jpg)
