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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Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.Pete Seeger
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
In a few lines of poetry he captured one of the great contradictions of the world the heroism of people doing something, even knowing it was a crazy something. And he showed how the establishment has used music for thousands of years to support its way of thinking.
Pete Seeger
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
There was so much political music going on it was the height of the anti-nuke stuff, ... there should be more places for people to do this kind of music.
Pete Seeger
Songs wont save the planet, but neither will books or speeches. Songs are sneaky things they can slip across borders.
Pete Seeger
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