Pete Seeger Quotes

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• If there is a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things.
• I have come to the conclusion that there is nothing good that doesn't have bad consequences and nothing bad that doesn't have good consequences.
• If you love this land of the free, bring them home, bring them home, Bring them back from overseas.
• I write a song because I want to. I think the moment you start writing it to make money, you're starting to kill yourself artistically.
• Do-so is more important than say-so.
• The key to the future of the world, is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.
• Well, it's one of the things that will. Words are good, and words help us become the leading species on earth to the point where…
• Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right…
• We all go to different churches or no churches, we have different favorite foods, different ways of making love, different ways of doing all sorts…
• If there's something wrong, speak up!
• Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.
• The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.
• I feel most spiritual when I'm out in the woods. I feel part of nature. Or looking up at the stars. [I used to say]…
• Some may find them merely diverting melodies. Others may find them incitements to Red revolution. And who will say if either or both is wrong?…
• RULERS should be careful about what songs are allowed to be sung.
• Realize that little things lead to bigger things.
• The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.
• Songwriters can’t explain. You get an idea and you don’t know where it’s come from. And if you’re lucky, you have a pencil or pen…
• And there's a wonderful parable in the New Testament: The sower scatters seeds. Some seeds fall in the pathway and get stamped on, and they…
• Hope that there are many, many small leaders.

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