Pete Seeger Quotes

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

Any damn fool can get complicated. It takes genius to attain simplicity.

I'd really rather put songs on people's lips than in their ears.

The world will be solved by millions of small things.

The key to the future of the world, is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.

If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.

Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.

It all boils down to what I would most like to do as a musician. Put songs on people's lips instead of just in their ears.

The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.

I’ve never sung anywhere without giving the people listening to me a chance to join in - as a kid, as a lefty, as a man touring the U.S.A. and the world, as an oldster. I guess it’s kind of a religion with me. Participation. That’s what’s going to save the human race.