Quote

It's been my belief that learning how to do something in your hometown is the most important thing.

Pete Seeger

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Learning
Belief
Important
Thing
Something

More quotes by Pete Seeger

Image
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.
Pete Seeger
Image
When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn?
Pete Seeger
Image
To everything there is a season.
Pete Seeger
Image
I tell kids, don't trust the media. The media with their emphasis on fame is helping to destroy this country, helping destroy the human race. It's the plug-in drug.
Pete Seeger
Image
All the arts, music, the visual arts, acting and dancing arts, cooking arts, and I believe sports, will save the human race because they can leap over barriers, religions, leap over barriers of race, politics.
Pete Seeger
Image
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.
Pete Seeger
Image
If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable.
Pete Seeger
Image
After visits to several Communist countries (USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Slovenia, East Germany, Vietnam, China, Cuba), I feel strongly that most revolutionary types around the world don't realize the importance of freedom of the press and the air, a right to peaceably assemble and discuss anything, including the dangers of such discussions.
Pete Seeger
Image
I fought for peace in the fifties.
Pete Seeger
Image
Do-so is more important than say-so.
Pete Seeger
Image
Honest songs aren`t written for money.
Pete Seeger
Image
This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit.
Pete Seeger
Image
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.
Pete Seeger
Image
Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live.
Pete Seeger
Image
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.
Pete Seeger
Image
Many Americans knew their lives and their souls were being struggled for, and they fought for it. And I felt I should carry on.
Pete Seeger
Image
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.
Pete Seeger
Image
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.
Pete Seeger
Image
Be wary of great leaders.
Pete Seeger
Image
I was never enthusiastic about being somebody who was supposed to be silent about being a member of something.
Pete Seeger