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To everything there is a season.

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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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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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Town after town has but one newspaper or one radio station. It is often owned by Murdoch. Yes, we don't have as much freedom of the press as we think we have - although the traditional freedom of speech is strongly rooted in American culture.
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Song, songs kept them going and going They didn't realize the millions of seeds they were sowing. They were singing in marches, even singing in jail. Songs gave them the courage to believe they would not fail.
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Like most teachers, I'm just another sower of seeds.
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I get up each morning, gather my wits, pick up the paper and read the obits. If I'm not there, I know I'm not dead, so I eat a good breakfast and go back to bed.
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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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The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it's somewhere in there.
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Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world.
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Sometimes you find an old tune so good you can use it several times for different purposes.
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But if by some freak of history communism had caught up with this country, I would have been one of the first people thrown in jail.
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If there is a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things.
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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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However, the agricultural revolution took thousands of years, the Industrial Revolution took hundreds, and the information revolution only took decades. So, who knows what's going to happen in the next few decades, especially with the women's revolution.
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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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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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Way back in the old days, say in Europe of the Middle Ages, you had an aristocracy, and they could afford to pay for musicians. The kings and queens had musicians in the castles, and that developed into symphony orchestras and what we call Classical music now.
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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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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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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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