Pete Seeger Quotes

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• If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.

  Pete Seeger

  Environmental, Should, Productions

  "Song: "If It Can't Be Reduced"("At 89")". 2008.

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• It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.

  Pete Seeger

  Teamwork, People, Important

  Pete Seeger (2013). “The Pete Seeger Reader”, p.237, Oxford University Press

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• Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

  Pete Seeger

  Inspirational, Education, Humor

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• Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.

  Pete Seeger

  Music, Song, Funny Things

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• I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.

  Pete Seeger

  People, Simple Life, Small Villages

  "The Old Left". New York Times Magazine Interview, www.nytimes.com. January 22, 1995.

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• And when one person taps out a beat, while another leads into the melody, or when three people discover a harmony they never knew existed, or a crowd joins in on a chorus as though to raise the ceiling a few feet higher, then they also know there is hope for the world.

  Pete Seeger

  Feet, People, Ceilings

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• Participation - that's what's gonna save the human race.

  Pete Seeger

  Healing, Race, Participation

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• The first step in solving a problem is admitting there is a problem to be solved.

  Pete Seeger

  Admitting, Firsts, Steps

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live.

  Pete Seeger

  Life, Generous Spirit, Giving

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• How can you save the world you have not seen if you can't save the community you have seen?

  Pete Seeger

  Community, World, Save The World

  "The Word Gets Around". Interview with Howard Jay Rubin, www.thesunmagazine.org. 1981.

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• I tell kids, don't trust the media. The media with their emphasis on fame is helping to destroy this country, helping destroy the human race. It's the plug-in drug.

  Pete Seeger

  Country, Kids, Race

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• If there's a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things. The powers-that-be can break up any big thing they want. They can corrupt it or co-opt it from the inside, or they can attack it from the outside. But what are they going to do about 10 million little things? They break up two of them, and three more like them spring up!

  Pete Seeger

  Change, Spring, Years

  "Pete Seeger: How can I keep from singing?". Interview With Sarah van Gelder, www.csmonitor.com. January 31, 2014.

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• Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.

  Pete Seeger

  Teaching, Light, Sound

  "How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seeger". Book by David King Dunaway, 1981.

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• A good song reminds us what we're fighting for.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Fighting

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• Every time I'm in the woods, i feel like I'm in church.

  Pete Seeger

  Nature, Church, Woods

  "Letters to Answer, and Logs to Split" by Michael Wilson, www.nytimes.com. October 1, 2010.

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• The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.

  Pete Seeger

  Mistake, Would Be, Mouths

  "How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seeger". Book by David King Dunaway, 1981.

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• 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

  Heart, Eye, Differences

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• I feel most spiritual when I'm out in the woods. I feel part of nature. Or looking up at the stars. [I used to say] I was an atheist. Now I say, it's all according to your definition of God. According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes I'm looking at God.

  Pete Seeger

  Spiritual, Atheist, Stars

  "Pete Seeger's Session". Beliefnet Interview, www.beliefnet.com. August 2006.

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• My job, is to show folks there's a lot of good music in this world, and if used right it may help to save the planet.

  Pete Seeger

  Jobs, World, May

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• I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

  Pete Seeger

  Russia, Church, Politics

  "The Old Left". Interview, www.nytimes.com. January 22, 1995.

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• According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm listening to something I'm listening to God.

  Pete Seeger

  Atheist, Eye, Thinking

  "Pete Seeger's Session". Beliefnet Interview, www.beliefnet.com. August 2006.

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• The key to the future of the world is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.

  Pete Seeger

  Optimistic, Keys, Stories

  "Pete Seeger, Songwriter and Champion of Folk Music, Dies at 94" by Jon Pareles, www.nytimes.com. January 28, 2014.

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• Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world.

  Pete Seeger

  Teacher, Children, Long

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• Get people to sing together and they'll act together too.

  Pete Seeger

  People, Together

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• This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit.

  Pete Seeger

  Hypocrisy, World, Way

  Source: peoplesworld.org

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