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I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax. I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.
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If singing were all that serious, frowning would make you sound better.
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Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.
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Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing?
Where have all the flowers gone, long time ago?
Where have all the flowers gone?
Young girls have picked them everyone.
Oh, when will they ever learn?
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If it can't be … reused, repaired … then it should be … redesigned or removed from production.
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Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
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"So, are you going to practice today?" asks my inner mom.
"Well, sure. But I've got one more phone call to make. The dishes are dirty. I have to feed the cat."
I don't hate practicing. I resist it. The goddess of procrastination can seduce me by lifting one eyebrow. After decades of practicing or avoiding the same, walking over to the piano remains the hardest part.
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Where have all the soldiers gone?
Gone to graveyards, everyone.
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?
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... 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.
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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.
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There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it within our power to help save it. In a small way, every single one of us counts.
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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.
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I have been singing folksongs of America and other lands to people everywhere. I am proud that I never refused to sing to any group of people because I might disagree with some of the ideas of some of the people listening to me. I have sung for rich and poor, for Americans of every possible political and religious opinion and persuasion, of every race, color, and creed. The House committee wished to pillory me because it didn't like some few of the many thousands of places I have sung for.
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This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.
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The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.
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If there is a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things.
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The world will be saved by people fighting for their homes.
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A time to gain, a time to lose
A time to rend, a time to sew
A time of love, a time of hate
A time of peace... I swear it's not too late.
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I'd really rather put songs on people's lips than in their ears.
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Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky;
Little boxes on the hillside
Little boxes all the same.
There's a green one, and a pink one,
And a blue one, and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky tacky,
and they all look just the same.
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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 seem to get people to sing with me.
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A productive mistake is: (1) made in the service of mission and vision; (2) acknowledged as a mistake; (3) learned from; (4) considered valuable; (5) shared for the benefit of all.
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To everything (turn, turn, turn)
There is a season (turn, turn, turn)
And a time for every purpose under heaven.
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Where have all the flowers gone?
The girls have picked them every one.
Oh, when will they ever learn?
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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.
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Born:
May 3, 1919
Died:
January 27, 2014
(aged 94)
Bio:
Peter Pete Seeger was an American folk singer and social activist.
Known for:
Frontier Ballads (1954)
Dangerous Songs!? (1966)
Precious Friend (1981)
American Favorite Ballads (1957)
American Ballads (1957)
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