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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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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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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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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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Honest songs aren`t written for money.
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If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable.
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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 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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If there's something wrong, speak up!
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A good song reminds us what we're fighting for.
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Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions.
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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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You have a right to your opinion and I've got a right to mine. Period.
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Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world.
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Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.
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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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Every time I'm in the woods, i feel like I'm in church.
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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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The real meaning of courage was the personal sacrifice of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King.
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