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Food is one of the great organizing tools.
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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Hope that there are many, many small leaders.
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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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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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Be wary of great leaders.
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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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You have a right to your opinion and I've got a right to mine. Period.
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Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple.
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I have to resist the temptation to want to learn everything. You know, you can't. You have to restrict yourself at some time, or else you find yourself just being spread too thin. And already I think I try too many things.
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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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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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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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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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I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.
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