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" I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart. "

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" According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes, I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm listening to something, I'm listening to God. "

Pete Seeger

Looking

God

Think

" Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches. "

" When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune. "

" I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be very glad to tell you my life if you want to hear of it. "

" I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax. "

" Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties. "

" If there's something wrong, speak up! "

Pete Seeger

Wrong

Something

" 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. "

" I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody. "

" I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches, and I do this voluntarily. "

" I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other. "

" I came along and was a teenager in the Depression, and nobody had jobs. So I went out hitchhiking, when I met a man named Woody Guthrie. He was the single biggest part of my education. "

" 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. "

" I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me. "

Pete Seeger

Present

I Believe

" I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life. "

" 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 get people to sing with me. "

Pete Seeger

Time

I Can

" 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. "

" But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them. "

" The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for slavery. "

" My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia. "

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

" I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known. "

Pete Seeger

Who

Known

" Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent. "

" Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live. "

" I feel that my whole life is a contribution. "

" Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business. "

" Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. "

Pete Seeger

You

Fine

" When you're facing an opponent over a broad front, you don't aim for the opponent's strong points, important though they may be. Pick a little outpost that you can capture and win. And then you find another place that you can capture and win it, and then you move slowly toward the big places. "

" I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American. "

Pete Seeger

American

Love

" I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs. "