If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always get people to sing with me. Pete Seeger More Quotes by Pete Seeger More Quotes From Pete Seeger People are combining traditions like never before and finding somehow a fundamental unity for this human race of ours. I think working with each other as Jeff Haynes has done here-we may be surprised to find what deeper unity all human beings have. Pete Seeger racepeoplethinking Just as with other great words, the word environment means different things. You might say that a cave woman twenty thousand years ago sweeping out the cave was improving the environment. Many people improving the environment think only in terms of the air they breathe in their hometown and the water in the aquifer under their hometown. My guess is very few are thinking centuries ahead or thousand of years ahead, but that's what we have to do. Pete Seeger aquifersmeanthinking And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well. Pete Seeger finepopsart But if two and two and fifty make a million... Pete Seeger mathematicalfiftytwo In the largest sense, every work of art is protest... A lullaby is a propaganda song and any three-year-old knows it... A hymn is a controversial song - sing one in the wrong church: you'll find out... Pete Seeger songyearsart I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me. Pete Seeger dishonormaybelieve I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart. Pete Seeger believeworldthinking Music has always had the ability to comfort and inspire. Pete Seeger abilitycomfortinspire 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 eveningguitarcutting I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany. Pete Seeger doctorsteacherfather I live in the country, so I get a fair amount of exercise. We heat our house with wood, so I split wood. We also live on a steep hill, and I have to rake and put in cross-stitches to keep the road from washing out when there's a big rain. Pete Seeger exerciseraincountry 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. Pete Seeger stupidmademistake I try to sing many different kinds of songs. If I sing a batch of humorous songs, I'll throw in a deadly serious song. Or if I'm singing too many serious songs, I'll throw in a ridiculous song, to mix it up. Pete Seeger singinghumoroussong I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known. Pete Seeger aggravationsongpeople I fought for peace in the fifties. Pete Seeger I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches. Pete Seeger catholicreligiouscountry The world will be solved by millions of small things. Pete Seeger millionsteamworkworld The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for slavery. Pete Seeger tangledtogetherworld John McCutcheon is not only one of the best musicians in the USA, but also a great singer, songwriter, and song leader. And not just incidentally, he is committed to helping hard-working people everywhere to organize and push this world in a better direction. Pete Seeger usahard-worksong Many Americans knew their lives and their souls were being struggled for, and they fought for it. And I felt I should carry on. Pete Seeger feltsoulshould
