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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
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The American Indians were Communists. They were. Every anthropologist will tell you they were Communists. No rich, no poor. If somebody needed something the community chipped in.
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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 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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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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Most conservatives just want to turn back the clock to a time before the income tax - 100 years or so. I would like to turn the clock back thousands of years to a time when people lived in small communities and took care of each other.
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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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Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple.
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Be wary of great leaders.
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Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.
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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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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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If there's something wrong, speak up!
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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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Music has always had the ability to comfort and inspire.
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Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world.
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I was about 16 years old years when my father took me to a square dance festival in North Carolina. For the first time in my life, I found there was music in my country that you never heard on the radio, and you didn't hear on the juke boxes, and in theaters. I fell in love with it, especially the long-necked banjos.
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John McCutcheon is not only one of the best musicians in the USA, but also a great singer, songwriter, and song leader. And not just incidentally, he is committed to helping hard-working people everywhere to organize and push this world in a better direction.
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Now any person who plays an acoustic guitar standing up on stage with a microphone is a folk singer. Some grandmother with a baby in her arms singing a 500-year-old song, well, she's not a folk singer, she's not on stage with a guitar and a microphone. No, she's just an old grandmother singing an old song. The term folk singer has gotten warpe
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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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You can't work on everything all the time, so start where you are.
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