Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
World
Saved
Hundred
Millions
Littles
Little
Going
Years
Things
Tens

More quotes by Pete Seeger

Image
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
Image
Honest songs aren`t written for money.
Pete Seeger
Image
When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn?
Pete Seeger
Image
If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.
Pete Seeger
Image
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.
Pete Seeger
Image
Parents are the hardest-working members of the population. But they do it for the highest wages. Kisses.
Pete Seeger
Image
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.
Pete Seeger
Image
I believe that all technological societies tend to self-destruct. The reason is that the very things that make us a successful technological society, such as our curiosity, our ambition and determination, will also cause us to fall.
Pete Seeger
Image
Food is one of the great organizing tools.
Pete Seeger
Image
At the audition, your assignment is to find something new in the song. Something you've never noticed before. A breath carried over, a thought that ties the whole thing together. Then take the risk and do it.
Pete Seeger
Image
Participation - that's what's gonna save the human race.
Pete Seeger
Image
The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.
Pete Seeger
Image
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
Image
Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.
Pete Seeger
Image
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
Image
RULERS should be careful about what songs are allowed to be sung.
Pete Seeger
Image
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
Image
If there's something wrong, speak up!
Pete Seeger
Image
I was working for Alan Lomax in the Library of Congress folk song archive, and starting to realize what a wealth of different kinds of music there was in this country that you never heard on the radio.
Pete Seeger
Image
Sometimes you find an old tune so good you can use it several times for different purposes.
Pete Seeger