Want Quotes by Pete Seeger

10 Want quotes by Pete Seeger

Pete Seeger offers ten short reflections on wanting, each echoing his folk‑music sensibility and social conscience. This modest collection provides a quick, grounded look at how he frames desire.

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I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.

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Anybody who wants to learn everything is pretty stupid. You learn what you can.

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Did you ever want something really bad and then when you finally got it all you could do was stand there and…

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I write a song because I want to. I think the moment you start writing it to make money, you're starting to…

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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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A good song can only do good, and I am proud of the songs I have sung. I hope to be able…

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I have to resist the temptation to want to learn everything. You know, you can't. You have to restrict yourself at some…

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Most conservatives just want to turn back the clock to a time before the income tax - 100 years or so. I…

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I remember someone once saying, "Pete, you know you really should take voice lessons." And I said, "Well, if I could find…

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If there's a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things. The…

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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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