Pete Seeger - People Quotes

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

Pete Seeger
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.

Pete Seeger
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.

Pete Seeger
The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.

Pete Seeger
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. 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
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.

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

Pete Seeger
The world will be saved by people fighting for their homes.

Pete Seeger