I'm not sure if my involvement in causes, benefits, marches, and demonstrations has made a huge difference, but I know one thing: that involvement has connected me with the good people: people with the live hearts, the live eyes, the live heads. 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 proud country facts Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple. Pete Seeger idiot genius simple Be wary of great leaders. Pete Seeger great-leader leader Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business. Pete Seeger singing glad song 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-confidence experiments ability 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 vietnam together war In a world of private property, if something isn't owned by somebody, it's going to be misused by somebody else. Pete Seeger property ifs world 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 risk ties song 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 average men firsts 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 philosophical religious country But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them. Pete Seeger decline aggravation people Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions. Pete Seeger i-believe answers believe Not everybody has to sing the melody. Pete Seeger melody religion 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 house people school My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's. Pete Seeger communist movement father 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 littles world years 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 spring jobs book 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 religious america years 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 conclusion consequence
