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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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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 want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.
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The real meaning of courage was the personal sacrifice of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King.
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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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The world will be saved by people fighting for their homes.
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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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The danger with the internet is that you don't need to think about music, you just search for it and you find the answer. Singing used to be part of everyday life. Women sang while pounding corn. Men sang while paddling canoes.
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Well, normally I’m against big things. I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things. Too many things can go wrong when they get big.” — Pete Seeger (on how he felt about attending his big 90th birthday bash last year)
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John Adams and Thomas Jefferson corresponded for 13 years before they died on the same day. They asked, How can one have prosperity without commerce? How can one have commerce without luxury? How can one have luxury without corruption? How can you have corruption without the end of the Republic? And they really didn't know the answer.
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If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable.
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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.
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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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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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I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be very glad to tell you my life if you want to hear of it.
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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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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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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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After visits to several Communist countries (USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Slovenia, East Germany, Vietnam, China, Cuba), I feel strongly that most revolutionary types around the world don't realize the importance of freedom of the press and the air, a right to peaceably assemble and discuss anything, including the dangers of such discussions.
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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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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.
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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.
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