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… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
If there's a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things. The… — 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
In a world of private property, if something isn't owned by somebody, it's going to be misused by somebody else. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world. — 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
How can you save the world you have not seen if you can't save the community you have seen? — 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
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
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
If there is a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things. — 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
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
After visits to several Communist countries (USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Slovenia, East Germany, Vietnam, China, Cuba), I feel strongly that most "revolutionary" types… — 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
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
The key to the future of the world, is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known. — 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
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
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
