Pete Seeger Quotes - Page 2

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• Realize that little things lead to bigger things.

  Pete Seeger

  Littles, Realizing, Little Things

  "We Shall Overcome: An Hour with Legendary Folk Singer & Activist Pete Seeger". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. September 4, 2006.

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• 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

  Teamwork, Community, Rich

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• I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things.

  Pete Seeger

  Thinking, World, Saved

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• I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Thinking, Make You Think

  Source: peoplesworld.org

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• Hope that there are many, many small leaders.

  Pete Seeger

  Leader

  "Pete Seeger dies aged 94" by Alexandra Topping, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2014.

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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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• And there's a wonderful parable in the New Testament: The sower scatters seeds. Some seeds fall in the pathway and get stamped on, and they don't grow. Some fall on the rocks, and they don't grow. But some seeds fall on fallow ground, and they grow and multiply a thousandfold. Who knows where some good little thing that you've done may bring results years later that you never dreamed of?

  Pete Seeger

  Fall, Years, Rocks

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• Music has always had the ability to comfort and inspire.

  Pete Seeger

  Inspire, Comfort, Ability

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• Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.

  Pete Seeger

  Technology, Wipe, Firsts

  "We Shall Overcome: An Hour with Legendary Folk Singer & Activist Pete Seeger". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. September 4, 2006.

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• Parents are the hardest-working members of the population. But they do it for the highest wages. Kisses.

  Pete Seeger

  Kissing, Parent, Population

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• Most scientists know what needs to be done to save our Earth. But the politicians don't listen to them. They will listen to popular pressure; the people got to supply that.

  Pete Seeger

  People, Earth Day, Needs

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• Anybody who wants to learn everything is pretty stupid. You learn what you can.

  Pete Seeger

  Stupid, Want

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn?

  Pete Seeger

  Learning

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• You have a right to your opinion and I've got a right to mine. Period.

  Pete Seeger

  Opinion, Periods, Mines

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• I'd really rather put songs on people's lips than in their ears.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, People, Ears

  "Pure Pete Seeger". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. May 20, 1994.

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• To everything there is a season.

  Pete Seeger

  Seasons

  Pete Seeger (2013). “The Pete Seeger Reader”, p.12, Oxford University Press

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• I’ve never sung anywhere without giving the people listening to me a chance to join in - as a kid, as a lefty, as a man touring the U.S.A. and the world, as an oldster. I guess it’s kind of a religion with me. Participation. That’s what’s going to save the human race.

  Pete Seeger

  Teamwork, Kids, Men

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• Like most teachers, I'm just another sower of seeds.

  Pete Seeger

  Teacher, Seeds

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• There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it without power to save it. In a small way, every single one of us counts.

  Pete Seeger

  Music, Beautiful, Selfishness

  "The Pete Seeger Reader".

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• This banjo surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.

  Pete Seeger

  Hate, Surrender, Banjos

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• You can't work on everything all the time, so start where you are.

  Pete Seeger

  Where You Are

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• The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it's somewhere in there.

  Pete Seeger

  Circles, Rabbits, Truth Is

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• If there's something wrong, speak up!

  Pete Seeger

  Speak, Ifs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is no such thing as a wrong note ... just as long as you're singing along.

  Pete Seeger

  Long, Singing, Notes

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• Singing with children in the schools has been the most rewarding experience of my life.

  Pete Seeger

  Children, School, Singing

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