261 Quotes by Pete Seeger

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    Just as with other great words, the word environment means different things. You might say that a cave woman twenty thousand years ago sweeping out the cave was improving the environment. Many people improving the environment think only in terms of the air they breathe in their hometown and the water in the aquifer under their hometown. My guess is very few are thinking centuries ahead or thousand of years ahead, but that's what we have to do.

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    Throughout history the leaders of the countries have been very particular about what songs should be sung. We know the power of songs.

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    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.

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    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.

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    If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always seem to get people to sing with me.

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    And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well.

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    In the sixties, during the Vietnam war, when anarchists and pacifists and socialists, Democrats and Republicans, decent-hearted Americans, all recoiled with horror at the bloodbath, we came together.

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