"Now somebody will ask me, Pete, how can……" — Pete Seeger
"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 darn thing, except that the people in power must think they do something, because they keep the songs off the air."
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91 Quotes by Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger has 91 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the…
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We all go to different churches or no churches, we have different favorite foods, different ways of making love, different…
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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…
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million…
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It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then…
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Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of…
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Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
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Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.
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I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into…
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Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
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A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and…
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is…
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