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Like most teachers, I'm just another sower of seeds. — Pete Seeger

Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple. — Pete Seeger

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

RULERS should be careful about what songs are allowed to be sung. — 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 guess I've learned more from the Clearwater than anything else. All I did was help to plant a seed, and I didn't know what the hell I was doing. — Pete Seeger

I never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist. — Pete Seeger

I'd really rather put songs on people's lips than in their ears. — 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

If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always get people to sing with me. — Pete Seeger

I heard Pete Seeger records when I was a kid. I saw Bob Dylan when I was about 12. The first song I ever learned to play was a song by Phil Ochs. — Ketch Secor

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

Some may find them merely diverting melodies. Others may find them incitements to Red revolution. And who will say if either or both is wrong? Not I. — Pete Seeger

I feel that my whole life is a contribution. — Pete Seeger

Get people to sing together and they'll act together too. — Pete Seeger

Music does affect your opinions. Plato is supposed to have said "It's very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music into the republic." — 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

You can't work on everything all the time, so start where you are. — Pete Seeger

Many Americans knew their lives and their souls were being struggled for, and they fought for it. And I felt I should carry on. — Pete Seeger

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

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. — Pete Seeger

Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary. — Pete Seeger

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

The first country conquered by any dictator is his own country. — Pete Seeger

I used to agree with Kurt Vonnegut, who said that the human race has a snowball's chance in hell of being around a hundred years from now. — 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

Throughout history the leaders of the countries have been very particular about what songs should be sung. We know the power of songs. — 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

I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things. — 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

Work in nightclubs was interesting. There were interesting people and places, but by and large, the commercial music experience. — 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

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

Singing with children in the schools has been the most rewarding experience of my life. — Pete Seeger

But if by some freak of history communism had caught up with this country, I would have been one of the first people thrown in jail. — 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

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

To everything there is a season. — Pete Seeger

Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions. — Pete Seeger

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

You'd be surprised how many stupid mistakes I've made. I make stupid mistakes all the time, and some of them have been very big stupid mistakes. — 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

I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think. — Pete Seeger

Be wary of great leaders. — Pete Seeger

You have a right to your opinion and I've got a right to mine. Period. — Pete Seeger

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

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

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

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

My mother gave me a ukulele at age eight, and I sang the popular tunes of the day. — Pete Seeger

The world will be saved by people fighting for their homes. — 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

Anybody who wants to learn everything is pretty stupid. You learn what you can. — Pete Seeger

Be serious. Folk songs are serious. That's what Pete Seeger told me. Arlo, I only wanna tell you one thing. Folk songs are serious. And I said Right. — Arlo Guthrie

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 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. — Pete Seeger

Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple. — 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

Education is what you get when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. — Pete Seeger

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