Pete Seeger Quotes
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Pete Seeger Quotes & Sayings
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Like most teachers, I'm just another sower of seeds.
— Pete Seeger
And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well.
— Pete Seeger
Looking back, I think I tried to be too eclectic. Sometimes I'd sing thirty songs, and fifteen of them were not in English.
— Pete Seeger
Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.
— Pete Seeger
Do-so is more important than say-so.
— Pete Seeger
Plagiarism is basic to all culture
— Pete Seeger
I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.
— David Gilmour
I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me.
— Pete Seeger
Participation - that's what's gonna save the human race.
— Pete Seeger
I never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist.
— Pete Seeger
The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.
— Pete Seeger
My finger picking is sort of a cross between Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, and total incompetence.
— Jimmy Page
I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.
— Pete Seeger
The key to the future of the world, is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.
— Pete Seeger
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
The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it's somewhere in there.
— Pete Seeger
I feel that my whole life is a contribution.
— Pete Seeger
In a world of private property, if something isn't owned by somebody, it's going to be misused by somebody else.
— Pete Seeger
Sometimes you find an old tune so good you can use it several times for different purposes.
— Pete Seeger
The world will be solved by millions of small things.
— Pete Seeger
Parents are the hardest-working members of the population. But they do it for the highest wages. Kisses.
— Pete Seeger
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Did you ever want something really bad and then when you finally got it all you could do was stand there and grin at it?
— Pete Seeger
My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.
— Pete Seeger
We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Realize that little things lead to bigger things.
— Pete Seeger
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
If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable.
— Pete Seeger
Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live.
— Pete Seeger
I was never enthusiastic about being somebody who was supposed to be silent about being a member of something.
— Pete Seeger
It was only through the years that I realized what an absolutely extraordinarily thoughtful person Dr. King was.
— Pete Seeger
The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.
— Pete Seeger
My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.
— Pete Seeger
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.
— Pete Seeger
Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world.
— Pete Seeger
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
But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.
— Pete Seeger
But if two and two and fifty make a million, ...
— Pete Seeger
I fought for peace in the fifties.
— Pete Seeger
Food is one of the great organizing tools.
— Pete Seeger
Singing with children in the schools has been the most rewarding experience of my life.
— Pete Seeger
My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'
— Pete Seeger
To everything there is a season.
— Pete Seeger
It's been my belief that learning how to do something in your hometown is the most important thing.
— Pete Seeger
If there is a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things.
— Pete Seeger
Be wary of great leaders.
— Pete Seeger
A song is like a picture of a bird in flight; the bird was moving before the picture was taken, and no doubt continued after.
— Pete Seeger
Music has always had the ability to comfort and inspire.
— Pete Seeger
This banjo surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.
— Pete Seeger
The real meaning of courage was the personal sacrifice of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King.
— Pete Seeger
When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.
— Pete Seeger
Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.
— Pete Seeger
When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn?
— Pete Seeger
If you love this land of the free, bring them home, bring them home, Bring them back from overseas.
— Pete Seeger
One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties.
— Pete Seeger
All songwriters are links in a chain.
— Pete Seeger
Not everybody has to sing the melody.
— Pete Seeger
It's a terrible thing being a patriarch. I don't even have a gray beard. But people keep calling me up for advice.
— Pete Seeger
Every time I'm in the woods, i feel like I'm in church
— Pete Seeger
Hope that there are many, many small leaders.
— Pete Seeger
A good song reminds us what we're fighting for.
— Pete Seeger
How can you save the world you have not seen if you can't save the community you have seen?
— Pete Seeger
My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's.
— Pete Seeger
I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by.
— Pete Seeger
Some folklorists just collected dead bones from one graveyard, only to bury them in another, their library.
— Pete Seeger
