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.
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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.
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If you love this land of the free, bring them home, bring them home, Bring them back from overseas.
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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 kill yourself artistically.
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Do-so is more important than say-so.
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The key to the future of the world, is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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If there's something wrong, speak up!
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Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.
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The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.
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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]…
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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?…
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RULERS should be careful about what songs are allowed to be sung.
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Realize that little things lead to bigger things.
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The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.
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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…
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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…
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Hope that there are many, many small leaders.
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