261 Quotes by Pete Seeger

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

It’s a terrible thing being a patriarch. I don’t even have a gray beard. But people keep calling me up for advice.

It all boils down to what I would most like to do as a musician. Put songs on people’s lips instead of just in their ears.

The world is like a seesaw out of balance: on one side is a box of big rocks, tilting it its way. On the other side is a box, and a bunch of us with teaspoons, adding a little sand at a time. One day, all of our teaspoons will add up, and the whole thing will tip, and people will say, ‘How did it happen so fast?

Music does affect your opinions. Plato is supposed to have said “It’s very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music into the republic.”

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.

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

I guess I’ve learned more from the Clearwater than anything else. All I did was help to plant a seed, and I didn’t know what the hell I was doing.

I write a song because I want to. I think the moment you start writing it to make money, you’re starting to kill yourself artistically.