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Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple.

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
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Street Artist
New York City
New York
Peter Seeger
Idiot
Complicated
Genius
Takes
Simple

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All songwriters are links in a chain.
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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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When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn?
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Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.
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I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things.
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The world will be saved by people fighting for their homes.
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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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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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I believe that all technological societies tend to self-destruct. The reason is that the very things that make us a successful technological society, such as our curiosity, our ambition and determination, will also cause us to fall.
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Every time I'm in the woods, i feel like I'm in church.
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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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You have a right to your opinion and I've got a right to mine. Period.
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You'd be surprised how many stupid mistakes I've made. I make stupid mistakes all the time, and some of them have been very big stupid mistakes.
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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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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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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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Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.
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I feel that my whole life is a contribution.
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Hope that there are many, many small leaders.
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