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A good song reminds us what we're fighting for.

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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I came along and was a teenager in the Depression, and nobody had jobs. So I went out hitchhiking, when I met a man named Woody Guthrie. He was the single biggest part of my education.
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I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things.
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The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for slavery.
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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?
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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.
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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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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.
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Throughout history the leaders of the countries have been very particular about what songs should be sung. We know the power of songs.
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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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In the sixties, during the Vietnam war, when anarchists and pacifists and socialists, Democrats and Republicans, decent-hearted Americans, all recoiled with horror at the bloodbath, we came together.
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Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary.
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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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It's been my belief that learning how to do something in your hometown is the most important thing.
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The real meaning of courage was the personal sacrifice of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King.
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To everything there is a season.
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Be wary of great leaders.
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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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I was about 16 years old years when my father took me to a square dance festival in North Carolina. For the first time in my life, I found there was music in my country that you never heard on the radio, and you didn't hear on the juke boxes, and in theaters. I fell in love with it, especially the long-necked banjos.
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Like most teachers, I'm just another sower of seeds.
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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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