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You have a right to your opinion and I've got a right to mine. Period.

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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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Opinion
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Way back in the old days, say in Europe of the Middle Ages, you had an aristocracy, and they could afford to pay for musicians. The kings and queens had musicians in the castles, and that developed into symphony orchestras and what we call Classical music now.
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If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.
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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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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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And when one person taps out a beat, while another leads into the melody, or when three people discover a harmony they never knew existed, or a crowd joins in on a chorus as though to raise the ceiling a few feet higher, then they also know there is hope for the world.
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At the audition, your assignment is to find something new in the song. Something you've never noticed before. A breath carried over, a thought that ties the whole thing together. Then take the risk and do it.
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Music has always had the ability to comfort and inspire.
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If there's something wrong, speak up!
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Every time I'm in the woods, i feel like I'm in church.
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It's been my belief that learning how to do something in your hometown is the most important thing.
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I was never enthusiastic about being somebody who was supposed to be silent about being a member of something.
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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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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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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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I'd really rather put songs on people's lips than in their ears.
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The world will be saved by people fighting for their homes.
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Do-so is more important than say-so.
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If there is a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things.
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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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RULERS should be careful about what songs are allowed to be sung.
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