Pete Seeger Quotes - Page 4

• I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think.

  Pete Seeger

  Canción, Pensamiento, Gente

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• Throughout history the leaders of the countries have been very particular about what songs should be sung. We know the power of songs.

  Pete Seeger

  Country, Song, Leader

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• Tenía 16 años cuando llegué a New York. Me había graduado con un banjo tenor en la banda de jazz del colegio, y era un poco aburrido: sólo acordes, acordes, acordes. Entonces mi padre me llevó a un festival de música y danza de montaña en Asheville, Carolina del Norte, y allí vi a gente relativamente inculta que tocaba buena música de oído.

  Pete Seeger

  New York, Padre, Escuela

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• When you play the 12-string guitar,you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.

  Pete Seeger

  Guitar, Play, Tunes

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• Sometimes you find an old tune so good you can use it several times for different purposes.

  Pete Seeger

  Tunes, Different, Purpose

  Fuente: peoplesworld.org

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• I feel that my whole life is a contribution.

  Pete Seeger

  Life Is, Whole Life, Feels

  "The day Pete Seeger faced down the HUAC as though, well, he had a hammer" by Scott Martelle, www.latimes.com. January 29, 2014.

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• If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable.

  Pete Seeger

  Cutting, Guitar, Evening

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• I get up each morning, gather my wits, pick up the paper and read the obits. If I'm not there, I know I'm not dead, so I eat a good breakfast and go back to bed.

  Pete Seeger

  Morning, Paper, Breakfast

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• If you love this land of the free, bring them home, bring them home, Bring them back from overseas.

  Pete Seeger

  War, Home, Land

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• I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, or I might be a vegetarian, make me any less of an American.

  Pete Seeger

  Country, Religious, Philosophical

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

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• One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties.

  Pete Seeger

  Country, Proud, Facts

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• A lo largo de los siglos, este truco ha sido probado por diversos establecimientos de todo el mundo. Obligan a la gente a participar en un tipo de examen que sólo tiene un objetivo: acabar con la disidencia.

  Pete Seeger

  People, Examination, World

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• Songwriters can’t explain. You get an idea and you don’t know where it’s come from. And if you’re lucky, you have a pencil or pen and can write it down.

  Pete Seeger

  Writing, Ideas, Lucky

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• Honest songs aren`t written for money.

  Pete Seeger

  Music, Song, Honest

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• Edison failed ten thousand times before he perfected the modern electric lamp. The average man would have quit at the first failure. That's why there are so many average men and only one Edison.

  Pete Seeger

  Men, Average, Firsts

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• It was Rachel Carson's famous book 'Silent Spring' that got me involved with the environment. I read it in The New Yorker, in installments. Up to then, I'd thought the main job to do is help the meek inherit the Earth. And I still, that's a job that's got to be done. But I realized if we didn't do something soon, what the meek would inherit would be a pretty poisonous place to live.

  Pete Seeger

  Jobs, Spring, Book

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• There's a story behind every old ballad or work song or nonsense song that I ever knew. Sometimes it's a fascinating story. A story of people struggling for freedom, struggling to get along in this old world.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Struggle, People

  Source: www.folkmusicworldwide.com

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• However, the agricultural revolution took thousands of years, the Industrial Revolution took hundreds, and the information revolution only took decades. So, who knows what's going to happen in the next few decades, especially with the women's revolution.

  Pete Seeger

  Years, Information, Next

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• I never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist.

  Pete Seeger

  Funny Things, Journalist, Wanted

  Source: www.folkmusicworldwide.com

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• Normalmente estoy en contra de las grandes cosas. Creo que el mundo se salvará con millones de cosas pequeñas. Demasiadas cosas pueden salir mal cuando se hacen grandes". - Pete Seeger (sobre cómo se sintió al asistir a la gran fiesta de su 90 cumpleaños el año pasado)

  Pete Seeger

  Thinking, Years, World

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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.

  Pete Seeger

  May, Red, Revolution

  Pete Seeger (2013). “The Pete Seeger Reader”, p.42, Oxford University Press

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• I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.

  Pete Seeger

  Proud, Hobos, Jungle

  "When Pete Seeger Faced Down the House Un-American Activities Committee" by Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. January 28, 2014.

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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.

  Pete Seeger

  Income, Conservative, Clock

  "The Old Left". New York Times (section 6, p. 13), www.nytimes.com. January 22, 1995.

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• I dreamed I saw a mighty room, the room was filled with men. And the paper they were signing said they'd never fight again.

  Pete Seeger

  Future, Fighting, Men

  "Song: "Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream"". 1964.

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• Folks out in the country couldn't afford to pay for anybody else to make music. They had to make their own. So the peasantry had their music, and it was about a hundred years ago given the name "Folk music".

  Pete Seeger

  Country, Years, Names

  Source: www.folkmusicworldwide.com

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