Pete Seeger Quotes

If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.

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

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.

I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.

And when one person taps out a beat, while another leads into the melody, or when three people discover a harmony they never knew existed, or a crowd joins in on a chorus as though to raise the ceiling a few feet higher, then they also know there is hope for the world.

The first step in solving a problem is admitting there is a problem to be solved.

Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live.

Participation - that's what's gonna save the human race.

A good song reminds us what we're fighting for.

I tell kids, don't trust the media. The media with their emphasis on fame is helping to destroy this country, helping destroy the human race. It's the plug-in drug.

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.

If there's a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things. The powers-that-be can break up any big thing they want. They can corrupt it or co-opt it from the inside, or they can attack it from the outside. But what are they going to do about 10 million little things? They break up two of them, and three more like them spring up!

How can you save the world you have not seen if you can't save the community you have seen?

Every time I'm in the woods, i feel like I'm in church.

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

Get people to sing together and they'll act together too.

The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.

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

I'm not sure if my involvement in causes, benefits, marches, and demonstrations has made a huge difference, but I know one thing: that involvement has connected me with the good people: people with the live hearts, the live eyes, the live heads.

I feel most spiritual when I'm out in the woods. I feel part of nature. Or looking up at the stars. [I used to say] I was an atheist. Now I say, it's all according to your definition of God. 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.

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

Realize that little things lead to bigger things.

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.

This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit.