35 Best Pete Seeger Quotes and Sayings

1- “My mother gave me a ukulele at age eight, and I sang the popular tunes of the day.”

2- “My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.”

3- “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.””

4- “I have to resist the temptation to want to learn everything. You know, you can’t. You have to restrict yourself at some time, or else you find yourself just being spread too thin. And already I think I try too many things.”

5- “If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I’d have cut his cable.”

6- “You can’t work on everything all the time, so start where you are.”

7- “Be wary of great leaders.”

8- “Many Americans knew their lives and their souls were being struggled for, and they fought for it. And I felt I should carry on.”

9- “Plagiarism is basic to all culture”

10- “If there is a world here in a hundred years, it’s going to be saved by tens of millions of little things.”

11- “The real meaning of courage was the personal sacrifice of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King.”

12- “If you love this land of the free, bring them home, bring them home, Bring them back from overseas.”

13- “All songwriters are links in a chain.”

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

15- “Not everybody has to sing the melody.”

16- “The world will be saved by people fighting for their homes.”

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

18- “To everything there is a season.”

19- “A song is like a picture of a bird in flight; the bird was moving before the picture was taken, and no doubt continued after.”

20- “Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple.”

21- “I feel that my whole life is a contribution.”

22- “Do-so is more important than say-so.”

23- “Hope that there are many, many small leaders.”

24- “Music has always had the ability to comfort and inspire.”

25- “Songs won’t save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.”

26- “The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it’s somewhere in there.”

27- “There is no such thing as a wrong note … just as long as you’re singing along.”

28- “If there’s something wrong, speak up!”

29- “I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by.”

30- “Get people to sing together and they’ll act together too.”

31- “The first country conquered by any dictator is his own country.”

32- “Every time I’m in the woods, i feel like I’m in church.”

33- “The first step in solving a problem is admitting there is a problem to be solved.”

34- “It’s a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with”

35- “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.”