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Sometimes you find an old tune so good you can use it several times for different purposes.

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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 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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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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If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always seem to get people to sing with me.
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All songwriters are links in a chain.
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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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Honest songs aren`t written for money.
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Participation - that's what's gonna save the human race.
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I’ve never sung anywhere without giving the people listening to me a chance to join in - as a kid, as a lefty, as a man touring the U.S.A. and the world, as an oldster. I guess it’s kind of a religion with me. Participation. That’s what’s going to save the human race.
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I'd really rather put songs on people's lips than in their ears.
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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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I have to resist the temptation to want to learn everything. You know, you can't. You have to restrict yourself at some time, or else you find yourself just being spread too thin. And already I think I try too many things.
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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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I was about 16 years old years when my father took me to a square dance festival in North Carolina. For the first time in my life, I found there was music in my country that you never heard on the radio, and you didn't hear on the juke boxes, and in theaters. I fell in love with it, especially the long-necked banjos.
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Music has always had the ability to comfort and inspire.
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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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My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's.
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Did you ever want something really bad and then when you finally got it all you could do was stand there and grin at it?
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When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn?
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