--- title: "18 Knows Quotes By Pete Seeger" description: "18 Knows quotes by Pete Seeger. Plus more from Pete Seeger and more Knows sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44a/pete-seeger-1942_decades_however-the-agricultural-revolution-took_298387.jpg" --- > [However, the agricultural revolution took thousands of years, the Industrial Revolution took hundreds, and the information revolution only took decades. So, who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/however-the-agricultural-revolution-took-thousands-of-years-the/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44a/pete-seeger-1942_decades_however-the-agricultural-revolution-took_298387.jpg) > [I have to resist the temptation to want to learn everything. You know, you can't. You have to restrict yourself at some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/i-have-to-resist-the-temptation-to-want-to-learn-everything-you-know/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d8/pete-seeger-1942_finding-yourself_i-have-to-resist-the-temptation-to-want_975787.png) > [I guess I've learned more from the Clearwater than anything else. All I did was help to plant a seed, and I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/i-guess-i-ve-learned-more-from-the-clearwater-than-anything-else-all/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/137/pete-seeger-1942_hell_i-guess-i-ve-learned-more-from-the-clear_2098031.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) > [Throughout history the leaders of the countries have been very particular about what songs should be sung. We know the power of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/throughout-history-the-leaders-of-the-countries-have-been-very/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/471/pete-seeger-1942_country_throughout-history-the-leaders-of-the-co_2696281.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) > [In the largest sense, every work of art is protest... A lullaby is a propaganda song and any three-year-old knows it... A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/in-the-largest-sense-every-work-of-art-is-protest-a-lullaby-is-a/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/630/pete-seeger-1942_art_in-the-largest-sense-every-work-of-art-i_712743.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) > [And when one person taps out a beat, while another leads into the melody, or when three people discover a harmony they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/and-when-one-person-taps-out-a-beat-while-another-leads-into-the/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b5/pete-seeger-1942_beats_and-when-one-person-taps-out-a-beat-whil_3147163.png) > [ He \[Alan Lomax\] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/he-alan-lomax-started-right-off-trying-to-find-people-who-could/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59e/pete-seeger-1942_actors_he-alan-lomax-started-right-off-trying-t_1712245.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) > [And there's a wonderful parable in the New Testament: The sower scatters seeds. Some seeds fall in the pathway and get stamped…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/and-there-s-a-wonderful-parable-in-the-new-testament-the-sower/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8be/pete-seeger-1942_bible_and-there-s-a-wonderful-parable-in-the-n_1430376.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) > [John Adams and Thomas Jefferson corresponded for 13 years before they died on the same day. They asked, "How can one have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/john-adams-and-thomas-jefferson-corresponded-for-13-years-before-they/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/385/pete-seeger-1942_answers_john-adams-and-thomas-jefferson-correspo_1742929.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) > [There are many people writing songs. That is absolutely wonderful. Who knows, there may be some kid in diapers and he or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/there-are-many-people-writing-songs-that-is-absolutely-wonderful-who/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/269/pete-seeger-1942_around-the-world_there-are-many-people-writing-songs-that_1650109.png) > [Most scientists know what needs to be done to save our Earth. But the politicians don't listen to them. They will listen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/most-scientists-know-what-needs-to-be-done-to-save-our-earth-but-the/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/546/pete-seeger-1942_climate_most-scientists-know-what-needs-to-be-do_2353475.jpg) > [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 Knows ## 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/knows/pete-seeger/#itemlist", "name": "18 Knows Quotes By Pete Seeger", "numberOfItems": 18, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "However, the agricultural revolution took thousands of years, the Industrial Revolution took hundreds, and the information revolution only took decades. 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