Best Pete Seeger Sayings
- I get up each morning, gather my wits, pick up the paper and read the obits. If I'm not there, I know I'm not dead,… Bed
- I dreamed I saw a mighty room, the room was filled with men. And the paper they were signing said they'd never fight again. Dreamed
- Song, songs kept them going and going; They didn't realize the millions of seeds they were sowing. They were singing in marches, even singing in… Believe
- Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. Belief
- It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with. Disagree
- Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches. Book
- Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live. Generous
- One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties. Country
- Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of… Aim
- I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it. Call
- I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other. Care
- Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business. Business
- I feel that my whole life is a contribution. Contribution
- I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted… Affair
- I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the… American
- But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them. Aggravation
- Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions. Answer
- I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me. Believe
- I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the… Aggravation
- I fought for peace in the fifties. Fifties
- I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for… Anybody
- I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax. Clock
- I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers… Almost Every
- I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what… American
- Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen… Abolitionist