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You can't work on everything all the time, so start where you are.
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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Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple.
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Well, normally Iām 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.ā ā Pete Seeger (on how he felt about attending his big 90th birthday bash last year)
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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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