Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary. — 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
My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.' — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Songs wont save the planet, but neither will books or speeches. Songs are sneaky things; they can slip across borders. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Looking back, I think I tried to be too eclectic. Sometimes I'd sing thirty songs, and fifteen of them were not in… — 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
I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Alan Lomax is the person who I think should be given major credit for what has been called the "Folk Song Revival."… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
John McCutcheon is not only one of the best musicians in the USA, but also a great singer, songwriter, and song leader.… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
There is an old Arabic proverb, 'When the king puts the poet on his payroll, he cuts off the tongue of 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… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Way back in the old days, say in Europe of the Middle Ages, you had an aristocracy, and they could afford to… — 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… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
There's a story behind every old ballad or work song or nonsense song that I ever knew. Sometimes it's a fascinating story.… — 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… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
In the United States, many people said you can't have folk music in the United States because you don't have any peasant… — 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
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
My mother wanted me to learn how to read music. She'd given fiddles to my two older brothers, but they'd rebelled. I… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
My job, is to show folks there's a lot of good music in this world, and if used right it may help… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm.… — 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
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
There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it without power to save… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I learned by transcribing songs out of the Library of Congress collection in Washington where I was working. I got a job… — 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
There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it within our power to… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Song, songs kept them going and going; They didn't realize the millions of seeds they were sowing. They were singing in marches,… — 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
Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
All the arts, music, the visual arts, acting and dancing arts, cooking arts, and I believe sports, will save the human race… — 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
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![“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)
![“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)
![“I learned by transcribing songs out of the Library of Congress collection in Washington where I was working. I got a job when I just turned twenty in 1939 and Alan [Lomax] needed some help. I listened to hundreds of records every week.” quote by Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/29d/pete-seeger-1942_collections_i-learned-by-transcribing-songs-out-of-t_2288735.jpg)
