Life Quotes by Pete Seeger

10 Life quotes by Pete Seeger

Pete Seeger shares ten short lines that echo his folk‑rooted view of humanity and the world. The collection is a quick, heartfelt glimpse into the values that guided his songs.

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Singing with children in the schools has been the most rewarding experience of my life.

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Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live.

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I feel that my whole life is a contribution.

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I never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist.

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My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.

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When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of…

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I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be…

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The danger with the internet is that you don't need to think about music, you just search for it and you find…

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I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience,…

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“Once upon a time, wasn’t singing a part of everyday life as much as talking, physical exercise, and religion? Our distant ancestors,…

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Honest songs aren't written for money.

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My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's.

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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…

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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…

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The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it's somewhere in there.

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I was about 16 years old years when my father took me to a square dance festival in North Carolina. For the first time…

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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.…

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When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.

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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…

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If there's something wrong, speak up!

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This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit.

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There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it within our power to help save…

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