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American singer-songwriter, Birth: 3-5-1919, Death: 27-1-2014 Pete Seeger Quotes
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I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.
Pete Seeger

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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.
Pete Seeger

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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 forties and fifties.
Pete Seeger

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It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.
Pete Seeger

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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 up any big thing they want. They can corrupt it or co-opt it from the inside, or they can attack it from the outside. But what are they going to do about 10 million little things? They break up two of them, and three more like them spring up!
Pete Seeger

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I tell kids, don't trust the media. The media with their emphasis on fame is helping to destroy this country, helping destroy the human race. It's the plug-in drug.
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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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Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.
Pete Seeger

Quote Topics by Pete Seeger: Song People Thinking Country Years World Believe Father Singing Men School Race Art Want Kings Teamwork Religious Fall Jobs Teacher Firsts Together Fighting Mother Jail Writing May Leader Kids Music
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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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Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world.
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If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.
Pete Seeger

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I’ve never sung anywhere without giving the people listening to me a chance to join in - as a kid, as a lefty, as a man touring the U.S.A. and the world, as an oldster. I guess it’s kind of a religion with me. Participation. That’s what’s going to save the human race.
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And there's a wonderful parable in the New Testament: The sower scatters seeds. Some seeds fall in the pathway and get stamped on, and they don't grow. Some fall on the rocks, and they don't grow. But some seeds fall on fallow ground, and they grow and multiply a thousandfold. Who knows where some good little thing that you've done may bring results years later that you never dreamed of?
Pete Seeger

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Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.
Pete Seeger

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Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same.
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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.
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Make the kind of music you love even if you never hear it on the air. This was the basic lesson I'd gotten from Alan [Lomax]. Alan said, Pete, look at all this great music around. You never hear it on the radio, but it's right there, great music.
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The first step in solving a problem is admitting there is a problem to be solved.
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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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I'd really rather put songs on people's lips than in their ears.
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The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.
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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 starting to kill yourself artistically.
Pete Seeger

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I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by.
Pete Seeger

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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; the people got to supply that.
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Realize that little things lead to bigger things.
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There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it without power to save it. In a small way, every single one of us counts.
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Anybody who wants to learn everything is pretty stupid. You learn what you can.
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According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm listening to something I'm listening to God.
Pete Seeger

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Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live.
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Most conservatives just want to turn back the clock to a time before the income tax - 100 years or so. I would like to turn the clock back thousands of years to a time when people lived in small communities and took care of each other.
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Every time I read the paper those old feelings come on.We are waist deep in the Big Muddy and the big fool says to push on.
Pete Seeger

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Hope that there are many, many small leaders.
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We have more freedom of the press than any other country in a similar position. Even way back in the frightened '50s, Communists, for example, could publish their magazine. The KKK published their own books. But face it, the mass media is controlled by money.
Pete Seeger

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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 impossible.
Pete Seeger

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There is an old Arabic proverb, 'When the king puts the poet on his payroll, he cuts off the tongue of the poet', so throughout the ages, people in power have liked to control music, they used to throw songwriters in jail throughout history, and were assassinated.
Pete Seeger

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Parents are the hardest-working members of the population. But they do it for the highest wages. Kisses.
Pete Seeger

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Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.
Pete Seeger

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Every time I'm in the woods, i feel like I'm in church.
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This banjo surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.
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There is no such thing as a wrong note ... just as long as you're singing along.
Pete Seeger

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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, or a crowd joins in on a chorus as though to raise the ceiling a few feet higher, then they also know there is hope for the world.
Pete Seeger

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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 planet.
Pete Seeger

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I feel most spiritual when I'm out in the woods. I feel part of nature. Or looking up at the stars. [I used to say] I was an atheist. Now I say, it's all according to your definition of God. According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes I'm looking at God.
Pete Seeger

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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 in any election, or any of these private affairs.
Pete Seeger

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If there's something wrong, speak up!
Pete Seeger

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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 jail. Songs gave them the courage to believe they would not fail.
Pete Seeger

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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.
Pete Seeger

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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.
Pete Seeger

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It's been my belief that learning how to do something in your hometown is the most important thing.
Pete Seeger

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Food is one of the great organizing tools.
Pete Seeger