List of Pete Seeger Quotes

When I Am Chopping Trees Out In The Woods Because I Heat My House With Wood, I Feel Myself Right In The Middle Of God. Mahalia Jackson Said "i Have Seen God. I Have Seen The Sun Rise." So, In A Sense, When Anyone Looks In The Mirror, They Look At An Infinitesimally Small Part Of God.

My Mother Playing The Violin And My Father And Grandfather Playing The Piano, Classical Stuff.

I Would Ask, "how Can One Have A Technological Society Without Research? How Can One Have Research Without Researching Dangerous Areas? How Can One Research Dangerous Areas Without Uncovering Dangerous Information? How Can You Uncover Dangerous Information Without It Falling Into The Hands Of Insane People Who Will Sooner Or Later Destroy The Human Race, If Not The Whole Of Life On Earth?" Who Knows? God Only Knows!

Town After Town Has But One Newspaper Or One Radio Station. It Is Often Owned By Murdoch. Yes, We Don't Have As Much Freedom Of The Press As We Think We Have - Although The Traditional Freedom Of Speech Is Strongly Rooted In American Culture.

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."

I Was Working For Alan Lomax In The Library Of Congress Folk Song Archive, And Starting To Realize What A Wealth Of Different Kinds Of Music There Was In This Country That You Never Heard On The Radio.

The Danger With The Internet Is That You Don't Need To Think About Music, You Just Search For It And You Find The Answer. Singing Used To Be Part Of Everyday Life. Women Sang While Pounding Corn. Men Sang While Paddling Canoes.

Alan Lomax Is The Person Who I Think Should Be Given Major Credit For What Has Been Called The "folk Song Revival." My Father Participated With Him Because My Father Was A Musicologist And Urged Trained Musicians To Learn About "the Vernacular."

Way Back In The Old Days, Say In Europe Of The Middle Ages, You Had An Aristocracy, And They Could Afford To Pay For Musicians. The Kings And Queens Had Musicians In The Castles, And That Developed Into Symphony Orchestras And What We Call "classical Music" Now.

I Believe That All Technological Societies Tend To Self-destruct. The Reason Is That The Very Things That Make Us A Successful Technological Society, Such As Our Curiosity, Our Ambition And Determination, Will Also Cause Us To Fall.

I Learned By Transcribing Songs Out Of The Library Of Congress Collection In Washington Where I Was Working. I Got A Job When I Just Turned Twenty In 1939 And Alan [lomax] Needed Some Help. I Listened To Hundreds Of Records Every Week.

It Was Only Through The Years That I Realized What An Absolutely Extraordinarily Thoughtful Person Dr. King Was.