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
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 never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I still prefer to hear [Bob] Dylan acoustic, some of his electric songs are absolutely great. Electric music is the vernacular of… — 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
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