"Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you.……" — Pete Seeger
"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 paint, the earth may be teaching you music."
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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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There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the…
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The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has…
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True love is your souls recognition of its counterpoint in another.
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Their pain [the injurer's pain at having injured you] and your pain create the point and counterpoint for the rhythm…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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Too much counterpoint; what is worse, Protestant counterpoint.
— Thomas Beecham
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From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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A look at the past reminds us of how great is the distance, and how short, over which we have…
— Robert Penn Warren
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I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint to the…
— Karen O
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As a myth of national purpose and as a program for individual conduct, the simple life has, in a sense,…
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Just as counterpoint and harmony follow their own laws, and differ in rhythm and movement, both formal tensions and color…
— Hans Hofmann
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The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is…
— Anish Kapoor
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Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between…
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