Pete Seeger Short Quotes

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This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.

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

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

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

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If singing were all that serious, frowning would make you sound better.

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

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

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If it can't be … reused, repaired … then it should be … redesigned or removed from production.

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

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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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Every time I read the paper those old feelings come on.
We are waist deep in the Big Muddy and the big fool says to push on.

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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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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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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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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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Some may find them merely diverting melodies. Others may find them incitements to Red revolution. And who will say if either or both is wrong? Not I.

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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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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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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.

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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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A good song can only do good, and I am proud of the songs I have sung. I hope to be able to continue singing these songs for all who want to listen, Republicans, Democrats, and independents.

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