261 Quotes by Pete Seeger

I’ve found that festivals are a relatively painless way to meet people and make a few points that need making, without having to hit them over the head with too many speeches.

Plagiarism is basic to all culture.

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

It’s been my belief that learning how to do something in your hometown is the most important thing.

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.

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.”

Participation – that’s what’s gonna save the human race.

I used to agree with Kurt Vonnegut, who said that the human race has a snowball’s chance in hell of being around a hundred years from now.

Honest songs aren’t written for money.