Aggravation Quote by Pete Seeger

“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 people I have known.”

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When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.

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If there's something wrong, speak up!

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This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit.

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I really never felt any tremendous aggravation or separation.

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Nobody wanted to touch Decline III when they found out what it was about.

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I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.

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“He is being nibbled to death by ducks. --More Later, Less the Same”

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