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Pete Seeger
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: May 3
Died: 2014
Died: January 27
Banjoist
Guitarist
Mandolinist
Musicologist
Peace Activist
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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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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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And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well.
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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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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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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 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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To everything there is a season.
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Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple.
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We all go to different churches or no churches, we have different favorite foods, different ways of making love, different ways of doing all sorts of things, but there we're all singing together. Gives you hope.
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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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Like most teachers, I'm just another sower of seeds.
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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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I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things.
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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 feel that my whole life is a contribution.
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You can't work on everything all the time, so start where you are.
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I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, or I might be a vegetarian, make me any less of an American.
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Participation - that's what's gonna save the human race.
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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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