Pete Seeger Quotes - Page 2

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

Music has always had the ability to comfort and inspire.

Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world.

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.

And there's a wonderful parable in the New Testament: The sower scatters seeds. Some seeds fall in the pathway and get stamped on, and they don't grow. Some fall on the rocks, and they don't grow. But some seeds fall on fallow ground, and they grow and multiply a thousandfold. Who knows where some good little thing that you've done may bring results years later that you never dreamed of?

Hope that there are many, many small leaders.

I’ve never sung anywhere without giving the people listening to me a chance to join in - as a kid, as a lefty, as a man touring the U.S.A. and the world, as an oldster. I guess it’s kind of a religion with me. Participation. That’s what’s going to save the human race.

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

Most scientists know what needs to be done to save our Earth. But the politicians don't listen to them. They will listen to popular pressure; the people got to supply that.

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.

My job, is to show folks there's a lot of good music in this world, and if used right it may help to save the planet.

Anybody who wants to learn everything is pretty stupid. You learn what you can.

When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn?

I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by.

The American Indians were Communists. They were. Every anthropologist will tell you they were Communists. No rich, no poor. If somebody needed something the community chipped in.

There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it without power to save it. In a small way, every single one of us counts.

This banjo surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.

You have a right to your opinion and I've got a right to mine. Period.

To everything there is a season.

The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it's somewhere in there.

We have more freedom of the press than any other country in a similar position. Even way back in the frightened '50s, Communists, for example, could publish their magazine. The KKK published their own books. But face it, the mass media is controlled by money.

If there's something wrong, speak up!

The first country conquered by any dictator is his own country.

There is no such thing as a wrong note ... just as long as you're singing along.

Like most teachers, I'm just another sower of seeds.