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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
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Every time I'm in the woods, i feel like I'm in church.
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Music has always had the ability to comfort and inspire.
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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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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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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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However, the agricultural revolution took thousands of years, the Industrial Revolution took hundreds, and the information revolution only took decades. So, who knows what's going to happen in the next few decades, especially with the women's revolution.
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Honest songs aren`t written for money.
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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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Like most teachers, I'm just another sower of seeds.
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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 feel that my whole life is a contribution.
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The real meaning of courage was the personal sacrifice of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King.
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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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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.
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If there's something wrong, speak up!
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According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm listening to something I'm listening to God.
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I'd really rather put songs on people's lips than in their ears.
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I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things.
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Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.
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When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn?
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