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Pete Seeger
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Pete Seeger
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: May 3
Died: 2014
Died: January 27
Banjoist
Guitarist
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Musicologist
Peace Activist
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New York City
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Peter Seeger
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More quotes by Pete Seeger
Every time I'm in the woods, i feel like I'm in church.
Pete Seeger
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.
Pete Seeger
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.
Pete Seeger
I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.
Pete Seeger
It's been my belief that learning how to do something in your hometown is the most important thing.
Pete Seeger
I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.
Pete Seeger
Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world.
Pete Seeger
I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things.
Pete Seeger
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.
Pete Seeger
In the sixties, during the Vietnam war, when anarchists and pacifists and socialists, Democrats and Republicans, decent-hearted Americans, all recoiled with horror at the bloodbath, we came together.
Pete Seeger
The danger with the internet is that you don't need to think about music, you just search for it and you find the answer. Singing used to be part of everyday life. Women sang while pounding corn. Men sang while paddling canoes.
Pete Seeger
Like most teachers, I'm just another sower of seeds.
Pete Seeger
When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn?
Pete Seeger
A productive mistake is: (1) made in the service of mission and vision (2) acknowledged as a mistake (3) learned from (4) considered valuable (5) shared for the benefit of all.
Pete Seeger
The first step in solving a problem is admitting there is a problem to be solved.
Pete Seeger
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.
Pete Seeger
Throughout history the leaders of the countries have been very particular about what songs should be sung. We know the power of songs.
Pete Seeger
The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.
Pete Seeger
RULERS should be careful about what songs are allowed to be sung.
Pete Seeger
People are combining traditions like never before and finding somehow a fundamental unity for this human race of ours. I think working with each other as Jeff Haynes has done here-we may be surprised to find what deeper unity all human beings have.
Pete Seeger
