--- title: "19 Years Quotes By Pete Seeger" description: "19 Years quotes by Pete Seeger. Plus more from Pete Seeger and more Years sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b2a/pete-seeger-1942_abolitionist_some-of-my-ancestors-were-religious-diss_608502.png" --- > [Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/some-of-my-ancestors-were-religious-dissenters-who-came-to-america/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b2a/pete-seeger-1942_abolitionist_some-of-my-ancestors-were-religious-diss_608502.png) > [I used to agree with Kurt Vonnegut, who said that the human race has a snowball's chance in hell of being around…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/i-used-to-agree-with-kurt-vonnegut-who-said-that-the-human-race-has-a/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c34/pete-seeger-1942_agree_i-used-to-agree-with-kurt-vonnegut-who-s_850570.png) > [It was only through the years that I realized what an absolutely extraordinarily thoughtful person Dr. King was.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/it-was-only-through-the-years-that-i-realized-what-an-absolutely/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/63f/pete-seeger-1942_drs_it-was-only-through-the-years-that-i-rea_557891.jpg) > [In the largest sense, every work of art is protest... A lullaby is a propaganda song and any three-year-old knows it... A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/in-the-largest-sense-every-work-of-art-is-protest-a-lullaby-is-a/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/630/pete-seeger-1942_art_in-the-largest-sense-every-work-of-art-i_712743.png) > [When I got out of school, I spent two years just hitchhiking around. Every time I met some old farmer who could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/when-i-got-out-of-school-i-spent-two-years-just-hitchhiking-around/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/548/pete-seeger-1942_banjo_when-i-got-out-of-school-i-spent-two-yea_2459619.png) > [If there is a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/if-there-is-a-world-here-in-a-hundred-years-it-s-going-to-be-saved-by/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e0/pete-seeger-1942_hundred_if-there-is-a-world-here-in-a-hundred-ye_1845960.png) > [Folks out in the country couldn't afford to pay for anybody else to make music. They had to make their own. So…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/folks-out-in-the-country-couldn-t-afford-to-pay-for-anybody-else-to/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/860/pete-seeger-1942_country_folks-out-in-the-country-couldn-t-afford_185094.png) > [Most conservatives just want to turn back the clock to a time before the income tax - 100 years or so. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/most-conservatives-just-want-to-turn-back-the-clock-to-a-time-before/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f9/pete-seeger-1942_care_most-conservatives-just-want-to-turn-bac_263761.png) > [However, the agricultural revolution took thousands of years, the Industrial Revolution took hundreds, and the information revolution only took decades. So, who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/however-the-agricultural-revolution-took-thousands-of-years-the/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44a/pete-seeger-1942_decades_however-the-agricultural-revolution-took_298387.jpg) > [If there's a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/if-there-s-a-world-here-in-a-hundred-years-it-s-going-to-be-saved-by/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a22/pete-seeger-1942_big-things_if-there-s-a-world-here-in-a-hundred-yea_568146.jpg) > [Now any person who plays an acoustic guitar standing up on stage with a microphone is a folk singer. Some grandmother with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/now-any-person-who-plays-an-acoustic-guitar-standing-up-on-stage-with/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd0/pete-seeger-1942_acoustic-guitar_now-any-person-who-plays-an-acoustic-gui_1554101.png) > [Well, normally I’m against big things. I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things. Too many…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/well-normally-i-m-against-big-things-i-think-the-world-is-going-to-be/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e63/pete-seeger-1942_bash_well-normally-i-m-against-big-things-i-t_2744233.png) > [And there's a wonderful parable in the New Testament: The sower scatters seeds. Some seeds fall in the pathway and get stamped…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/and-there-s-a-wonderful-parable-in-the-new-testament-the-sower/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8be/pete-seeger-1942_bible_and-there-s-a-wonderful-parable-in-the-n_1430376.jpg) > [I was about 16 years old years when my father took me to a square dance festival in North Carolina. For the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/i-was-about-16-years-old-years-when-my-father-took-me-to-a-square/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/96e/pete-seeger-1942_banjos_i-was-about-16-years-old-years-when-my-f_103081.jpg) > [John Adams and Thomas Jefferson corresponded for 13 years before they died on the same day. They asked, "How can one have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/john-adams-and-thomas-jefferson-corresponded-for-13-years-before-they/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/385/pete-seeger-1942_answers_john-adams-and-thomas-jefferson-correspo_1742929.png) > [ He \[Alan Lomax\] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/he-alan-lomax-started-right-off-trying-to-find-people-who-could/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59e/pete-seeger-1942_actors_he-alan-lomax-started-right-off-trying-t_1712245.jpg) > [Just as with other great words, the word environment means different things. You might say that a cave woman twenty thousand years…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/just-as-with-other-great-words-the-word-environment-means-different/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f7/pete-seeger-1942_air_just-as-with-other-great-words-the-word_1136640.png) > [There is something about participating; it is almost my religion. If the world is still here in 100 years, people will know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/there-is-something-about-participating-it-is-almost-my-religion-if/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a17/pete-seeger-1942_agree_there-is-something-about-participating-i_2866718.png) > [There are many people writing songs. That is absolutely wonderful. Who knows, there may be some kid in diapers and he or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/there-are-many-people-writing-songs-that-is-absolutely-wonderful-who/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/269/pete-seeger-1942_around-the-world_there-are-many-people-writing-songs-that_1650109.png) ## Other authors on Years ## More by Pete Seeger > [Honest songs aren't written for money.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/honest-songs-aren-t-written-for-money/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) > [My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/my-father-charles-seeger-got-me-into-the-communist-movement-he-backed/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/in-the-sixties-during-the-vietnam-war-when-anarchists-and-pacifists/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/now-somebody-will-ask-me-pete-how-can-you-prove-these-songs-really/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) > [The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it's somewhere in there.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/the-truth-is-a-rabbit-in-a-bramble-patch-all-you-can-do-is-circle/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) > [I was about 16 years old years when my father took me to a square dance festival in North Carolina. For the first time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/i-was-about-16-years-old-years-when-my-father-took-me-to-a-square/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) > [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/it-was-rachel-carson-s-famous-book-silent-spring-that-got-me-involved/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) > [When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/when-you-play-the-12-string-guitar-you-spend-half-your-life-tuning/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/folks-out-in-the-country-couldn-t-afford-to-pay-for-anybody-else-to/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) > [If there's something wrong, speak up!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/if-there-s-something-wrong-speak-up/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) > [This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/this-world-is-so-full-of-hypocrisy-the-only-way-you-can-be-honest-is/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) > [There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it within our power to help save…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/there-is-a-big-beautiful-world-that-could-be-destroyed-by-selfishness/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) > [And the people in the houses All went to the University And they got put in boxes Little boxes all the same, Little boxes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/and-the-people-in-the-houses-all-went-to-the-university-and-they-got/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) > [A good song reminds us what we're fighting for.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/a-good-song-reminds-us-what-we-re-fighting-for/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) > [Most conservatives just want to turn back the clock to a time before the income tax - 100 years or so. I would like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-seeger/most-conservatives-just-want-to-turn-back-the-clock-to-a-time-before/) [Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-seeger/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/years/pete-seeger/#itemlist", "name": "19 Years Quotes By Pete Seeger", "numberOfItems": 19, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. 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