Anybody who wants to learn everything is pretty stupid. You learn what you can. Pete Seeger More Quotes by Pete Seeger More Quotes From Pete Seeger One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties. Pete Seeger proudcountryfacts Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple. Pete Seeger idiotgeniussimple Be wary of great leaders. Pete Seeger great-leaderleader Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business. Pete Seeger singinggladsong To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence you have to be loved, to be loved you have to love. Pete Seeger have-confidenceexperimentsability 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. Pete Seeger vietnamtogetherwar In a world of private property, if something isn't owned by somebody, it's going to be misused by somebody else. Pete Seeger propertyifsworld At the audition, your assignment is to find something new in the song. Something you've never noticed before. A breath carried over, a thought that ties the whole thing together. Then take the risk and do it. Pete Seeger risktiessong Edison failed ten thousand times before he perfected the modern electric lamp. The average man would have quit at the first failure. That's why there are so many average men and only one Edison. Pete Seeger averagemenfirsts 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. Pete Seeger philosophicalreligiouscountry But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them. Pete Seeger declineaggravationpeople Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions. Pete Seeger i-believeanswersbelieve Not everybody has to sing the melody. Pete Seeger melodyreligion And the people in the houses All went to the University And they got put in boxes Little boxes all the same, Little boxes all the same, Little boxes all the same, Little boxes all the same And they all come out all the same. Pete Seeger housepeopleschool My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's. Pete Seeger communistmovementfather If there is a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things. Pete Seeger littlesworldyears It was Rachel Carson's famous book 'Silent Spring' that got me involved with the environment. I read it in The New Yorker, in installments. Up to then, I'd thought the main job to do is help the meek inherit the Earth. And I still, that's a job that's got to be done. But I realized if we didn't do something soon, what the meek would inherit would be a pretty poisonous place to live. Pete Seeger springjobsbook You can't work on everything all the time, so start where you are. Pete Seeger where-you-are Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties. Pete Seeger religiousamericayears I have come to the conclusion that there is nothing good that doesn't have bad consequences and nothing bad that doesn't have good consequences. Pete Seeger conclusionconsequence
