I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
It's a terrible thing being a patriarch. I don't even have a gray beard. But people keep calling me up for advice. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Most scientists know what needs to be done to save our Earth. But the politicians don't listen to them. They will listen… — 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
And the people in the houses All went to the University And they got put in boxes Little boxes all the same,… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I've found that festivals are a relatively painless way to meet people and make a few points that need making, without having… — 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
Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if my involvement in causes, benefits, marches, and demonstrations has made a huge difference, but I know one thing:… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Work in nightclubs was interesting. There were interesting people and places, but by and large, the commercial music experience. — 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
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
My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I was 16 when I came to New York. I had graduated to a tenor banjo in the school jazz band, and… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I would ask, "How can one have a technological society without research? How can one have research without researching dangerous areas? How… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Just as with other great words, the word environment means different things. You might say that a cave woman twenty thousand years… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Most conservatives just want to turn back the clock to a time before the income tax - 100 years or so. I… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
But if by some freak of history communism had caught up with this country, I would have been one of the first… — 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
I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places I have sung and some… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with. — 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
If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
People are combining traditions like never before and finding somehow a fundamental unity for this human race of ours. I think working… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I’ve never sung anywhere without giving the people listening to me a chance to join in - as a kid, as a… — 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
There is something about participating; it is almost my religion. If the world is still here in 100 years, people will know… — 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
![“My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant songs and then arranged them for part choir and accompanied them on piano, and then told the young people of their country, "Don't change a note, this is our sacred…” quote by Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7cb/pete-seeger-1942_century_my-father-urged-alan-lomax-not-to-repeat_2145424.jpg)
![“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)
