Singing with children in the schools has been the most rewarding experience of my life. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia. — 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… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience,… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
The danger with the internet is that you don't need to think about music, you just search for it and you find… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, wasn’t singing a part of everyday life as much as talking, physical exercise, and religion? Our distant ancestors,… — 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
