Best Pete Seeger Quotes
- Most scientists know what needs to be done to save our Earth. But the politicians don't listen to them. They will listen to popular pressure;… Earth
- But if two and two and fifty make a million,... Fifty
- If there's a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things. The powers-that-be can break… Any
- Just as with other great words, the word environment means different things. You might say that a cave woman twenty thousand years ago sweeping out… Ago
- I'd really rather put songs on people's lips than in their ears. Ears
- My job, is to show folks there's a lot of good music in this world, and if used right it may help to save the… Folks
- Parents are the hardest-working members of the population. But they do it for the highest wages. Kisses. Hardest
- I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things. Inspirational
- People are combining traditions like never before and finding somehow a fundamental unity for this human race of ours. I think working with each other… All
- The real meaning of courage was the personal sacrifice of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King. Bravery
- When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn? Ever Learn
- I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes… Cry
- Food is one of the great organizing tools. Food
- All songwriters are links in a chain. All
- How can you save the world you have not seen if you can't save the community you have seen? Community
- There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it within our power to help save it.… Beautiful
- Honest songs aren`t written for money. Aren
- You have a right to your opinion and I've got a right to mine. Period. Inspirational
- And when one person taps out a beat, while another leads into the melody, or when three people discover a harmony they never knew existed,… Another Leads
- 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 a… Air
- Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world. Children
- 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. Up… Book
- The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it's somewhere in there. All
- Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to… Counterpoint
- I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be very glad to… American