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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
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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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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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The real meaning of courage was the personal sacrifice of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King.
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Hope that there are many, many small leaders.
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When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn?
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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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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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Music has always had the ability to comfort and inspire.
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I believe that all technological societies tend to self-destruct. The reason is that the very things that make us a successful technological society, such as our curiosity, our ambition and determination, will also cause us to fall.
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A good song reminds us what we're fighting for.
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Now somebody will ask me, Pete, how can you prove these songs really make a difference? And I have to confess I can't prove a darn thing, except that the people in power must think they do something, because they keep the songs off the air.
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Honest songs aren`t written for money.
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Every time I'm in the woods, i feel like I'm in church.
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The world will be saved by people fighting for their homes.
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I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known.
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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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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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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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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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