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Music has always had the ability to comfort and inspire.
Pete Seeger
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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
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Singer-Songwriter
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New York City
New York
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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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People are combining traditions like never before and finding somehow a fundamental unity for this human race of ours. I think working with each other as Jeff Haynes has done here-we may be surprised to find what deeper unity all human beings have.
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My mother gave me a ukulele at age eight, and I sang the popular tunes of the day.
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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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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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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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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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I feel that my whole life is a contribution.
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We all go to different churches or no churches, we have different favorite foods, different ways of making love, different ways of doing all sorts of things, but there we're all singing together. Gives you hope.
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I was working for Alan Lomax in the Library of Congress folk song archive, and starting to realize what a wealth of different kinds of music there was in this country that you never heard on the radio.
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Be wary of great leaders.
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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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Well, normally I’m against big things. I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things. Too many things can go wrong when they get big.” — Pete Seeger (on how he felt about attending his big 90th birthday bash last year)
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All songwriters are links in a chain.
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Do-so is more important than say-so.
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It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.
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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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Honest songs aren`t written for money.
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Like most teachers, I'm just another sower of seeds.
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