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Music has always had the ability to comfort and inspire.

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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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Comfort
Ability
Music
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Do-so is more important than say-so.
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I fought for peace in the fifties.
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It's been my belief that learning how to do something in your hometown is the most important thing.
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RULERS should be careful about what songs are allowed to be sung.
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I'd really rather put songs on people's lips than in their ears.
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Food is one of the great organizing tools.
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I still prefer to hear [Bob] Dylan acoustic, some of his electric songs are absolutely great. Electric music is the vernacular of the second half of the twentieth century, to use my father's old term.
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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 love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, or I might be a vegetarian, make me any less of an American.
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Participation - that's what's gonna save the human race.
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If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.
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The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it's somewhere in there.
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All songwriters are links in a chain.
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Throughout history the leaders of the countries have been very particular about what songs should be sung. We know the power of songs.
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Hope that there are many, many small leaders.
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