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
I don't think of God as an old white man with no belly button, nor even an old black woman with no… — 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
I feel most spiritual when I'm out in the woods. I feel part of nature. Or looking up at the stars. [I… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
We will never know everything. But I think if we can learn within the next few decades to face the danger we… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I feel most spiritual when I'm out in the woods. I feel part of nature. Or looking up at the stars. [I… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I have to resist the temptation to want to learn everything. You know, you can't. You have to restrict yourself at some… — 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
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
According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes, I'm… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Town after town has but one newspaper or one radio station. It is often owned by Murdoch. Yes, we don't have as… — 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'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Well, it's one of the things that will. Words are good, and words help us become the leading species on earth to… — 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
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
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
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
Well, normally I’m against big things. I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things. Too many… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I write a song because I want to. I think the moment you start writing it to make money, you're starting to… — 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
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
