The American Indians were Communists. They were. Every anthropologist will tell you they were Communists. No rich, no poor. If somebody needed something the community chipped in. Pete Seeger More Quotes by Pete Seeger More Quotes From Pete Seeger 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 aquifers mean thinking 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 fine pops art But if two and two and fifty make a million... Pete Seeger mathematical fifty two 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 song years art I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me. Pete Seeger dishonor may believe 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 believe world thinking Music has always had the ability to comfort and inspire. Pete Seeger ability comfort inspire 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 evening guitar cutting 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 doctors teacher father 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 exercise rain country 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 stupid made mistake 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 singing humorous song 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 aggravation song people 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 catholic religious country The world will be solved by millions of small things. Pete Seeger millions teamwork world 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 tangled together world 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 usa hard-work song 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 felt soul should 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. Pete Seeger jail country people
