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I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.
Pete Seeger
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Pete Seeger
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: May 3
Died: 2014
Died: January 27
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I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, or I might be a vegetarian, make me any less of an American.
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Many Americans knew their lives and their souls were being struggled for, and they fought for it. And I felt I should carry on.
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Parents are the hardest-working members of the population. But they do it for the highest wages. Kisses.
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When you play the 12-string guitar,you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.
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You have a right to your opinion and I've got a right to mine. Period.
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Honest songs aren`t written for money.
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In a world of private property, if something isn't owned by somebody, it's going to be misused by somebody else.
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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 seem to get people to sing with me.
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You can't work on everything all the time, so start where you are.
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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.
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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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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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My mother gave me a ukulele at age eight, and I sang the popular tunes of the day.
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The American Indians were Communists. They were. Every anthropologist will tell you they were Communists. No rich, no poor. If somebody needed something the community chipped in.
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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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