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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
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Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.
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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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To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence you have to be loved, to be loved you have to love.
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I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.
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It's a terrible thing being a patriarch. I don't even have a gray beard. But people keep calling me up for advice.
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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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I'd really rather put songs on people's lips than in their ears.
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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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A good song reminds us what we're fighting for.
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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.
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And the people in the houses All went to the University And they got put in boxes Little boxes all the same, Little boxes all the same, Little boxes all the same, Little boxes all the same And they all come out all the same.
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You have a right to your opinion and I've got a right to mine. Period.
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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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I feel that my whole life is a contribution.
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Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple.
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Now somebody will ask me, Pete, how can you prove these songs really make a difference? And I have to confess I can't prove a darn thing, except that the people in power must think they do something, because they keep the songs off the air.
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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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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.
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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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When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn?
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