261 Quotes by Pete Seeger

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”.

I live in the country, so I get a fair amount of exercise. We heat our house with wood, so I split wood. We also live on a steep hill, and I have to rake and put in cross-stitches to keep the road from washing out when there’s a big rain.

You’d be surprised how many stupid mistakes I’ve made. I make stupid mistakes all the time, and some of them have been very big stupid mistakes.

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

If there’s something wrong, speak up!

You can’t work on everything all the time, so start where you are.

My dad, the old professor, used to say, ‘Never get into an argument about what’s folk music and what isn’t.’

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

My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around ’38. I drifted out in the 50’s.