261 Quotes by Pete Seeger

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.

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

John McCutcheon is not only one of the best musicians in the USA, but also a great singer, songwriter, and song leader. And not just incidentally, he is committed to helping hard-working people everywhere to organize and push this world in a better direction.

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

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

Work in nightclubs was interesting. There were interesting people and places, but by and large, the commercial music experience.

Alan Lomax is the person who I think should be given major credit for what has been called the "Folk Song Revival." My father participated with him because my father was a musicologist and urged trained musicians to learn about "the vernacular."

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

Music has always had the ability to comfort and inspire.