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" My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia. "
Pete Seeger
Father
Good
Life
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" 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. "
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" But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them. "
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People
" Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. "
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Print
You
Fine
" 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. "
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Big
Mistakes
" 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. "
Pete Seeger
Political
Questions
Election
" Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches. "
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Speeches
Save
Planet
" 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. "
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Man
Education
Depression
" I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other. "
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People
Small
Want
" If there's something wrong, speak up! "
Pete Seeger
Wrong
Up
Something
" 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
Me
American
Love
" 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. "
Pete Seeger
Believe
Rich
Survive
" Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions. "
Pete Seeger
I Believe
Answer
Believe
" 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. "
Pete Seeger
Jewish
Saying
Country
" I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think. "
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Song
You
Think
" I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany. "
Pete Seeger
Doctor
Family
Father
" Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business. "
Pete Seeger
Business
Tell
Say
" 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. "
Pete Seeger
Dissent
People
Down
" 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
Me
" 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. "
Pete Seeger
Because
Russia
Myself
" When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune. "
Pete Seeger
Out
Guitar
Instrument
" I feel that my whole life is a contribution. "
Pete Seeger
Life
Feel
Contribution
" 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
Me
" 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. "
Pete Seeger
Conservative
Clock
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. "
Pete Seeger
New
Three
America
" 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. "
Pete Seeger
Sing
Proud
Never
" 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. "
Pete Seeger
Important
Place
Strong
" Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live. "
Pete Seeger
Live
Way
Spirit
" 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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Road
Rain
Live
" I fought for peace in the fifties. "
Pete Seeger
Fought
Fifties
Peace
" I try to sing many different kinds of songs. If I sing a batch of humorous songs, I'll throw in a deadly serious song. Or if I'm singing too many serious songs, I'll throw in a ridiculous song, to mix it up. "
Pete Seeger
Song
Try
Ridiculous