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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.
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
Street Artist
New York City
New York
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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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Music has always had the ability to comfort and inspire.
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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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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 have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.
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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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A productive mistake is: (1) made in the service of mission and vision (2) acknowledged as a mistake (3) learned from (4) considered valuable (5) shared for the benefit of all.
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Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple.
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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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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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In the sixties, during the Vietnam war, when anarchists and pacifists and socialists, Democrats and Republicans, decent-hearted Americans, all recoiled with horror at the bloodbath, we came together.
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Food is one of the great organizing tools.
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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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I was never enthusiastic about being somebody who was supposed to be silent about being a member of something.
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It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.
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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.
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Many Americans knew their lives and their souls were being struggled for, and they fought for it. And I felt I should carry on.
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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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Be wary of great leaders.
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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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