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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.
Pete Seeger
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Pete Seeger
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: May 3
Died: 2014
Died: January 27
Banjoist
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New York City
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This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit.
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I get up each morning, gather my wits, pick up the paper and read the obits. If I'm not there, I know I'm not dead, so I eat a good breakfast and go back to bed.
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Do-so is more important than say-so.
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But if by some freak of history communism had caught up with this country, I would have been one of the first people thrown in jail.
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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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The real meaning of courage was the personal sacrifice of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King.
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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 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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The first step in solving a problem is admitting there is a problem to be solved.
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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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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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