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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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Pete Seeger
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: May 3
Died: 2014
Died: January 27
Banjoist
Guitarist
Mandolinist
Musicologist
Peace Activist
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Street Artist
New York City
New York
Peter Seeger
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When I got out of school, I spent two years just hitchhiking around. Every time I met some old farmer who could play banjo, I got him to teach me a lick or two. Little by little, I put it together.
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Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live.
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Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.
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I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.
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Every time I'm in the woods, i feel like I'm in church.
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I have to resist the temptation to want to learn everything. You know, you can't. You have to restrict yourself at some time, or else you find yourself just being spread too thin. And already I think I try too many things.
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RULERS should be careful about what songs are allowed to be sung.
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I feel that my whole life is a contribution.
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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.
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A good song can only do good, and I am proud of the songs I have sung. I hope to be able to continue singing these songs for all who want to listen, Republicans, Democrats, and independents.
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Now any person who plays an acoustic guitar standing up on stage with a microphone is a folk singer. Some grandmother with a baby in her arms singing a 500-year-old song, well, she's not a folk singer, she's not on stage with a guitar and a microphone. No, she's just an old grandmother singing an old song. The term folk singer has gotten warpe
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My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's.
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The world will be saved by people fighting for their homes.
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However, the agricultural revolution took thousands of years, the Industrial Revolution took hundreds, and the information revolution only took decades. So, who knows what's going to happen in the next few decades, especially with the women's revolution.
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I don't think of God as an old white man with no belly button, nor even an old black woman with no belly button. But I agree that God is something eternal. Something cannot come out of nothing. I believe God is Everything. And I believe in infinity.
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The real meaning of courage was the personal sacrifice of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King.
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It's been my belief that learning how to do something in your hometown is the most important thing.
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People are combining traditions like never before and finding somehow a fundamental unity for this human race of ours. I think working with each other as Jeff Haynes has done here-we may be surprised to find what deeper unity all human beings have.
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Sometimes you find an old tune so good you can use it several times for different purposes.
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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.
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