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" 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. "
Pete Seeger
Together
American
Good
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" 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. "
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" If there's something wrong, speak up! "
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" 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. "
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" Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business. "
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" It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with. "
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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 get people to sing with me. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. "
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" 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. "
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" Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other. "
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" Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live. "
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Way
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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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" Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia. "
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" I fought for peace in the fifties. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune. "
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" 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. "
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