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

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

Throughout history the leaders of the countries have been very particular about what songs should be sung. We know the power of songs..

I'm not sure if my involvement in causes, benefits, marches, and demonstrations has made a huge difference, but I know one thing: that involvement ha….

How can you save the world you have not seen if you can't save the community you have seen?.

I would ask, "How can one have a technological society without research? How can one have research without researching dangerous areas? How can one r….

RULERS should be careful about what songs are allowed to be sung..

I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and….

Make the kind of music you love even if you never hear it on the air. This was the basic lesson I'd gotten from Alan [Lomax]. Alan said, Pete, look a….

Be wary of great leaders..

It's been my belief that learning how to do something in your hometown is the most important thing..

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

I'd like to be remembered as the sower of seeds. That's the greatest parable in the bible as far as I'm concerned. Some seeds fall in the pathway, ge….

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 ….

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..

All songwriters are links in a chain..

I remember someone once saying, "Pete, you know you really should take voice lessons." And I said, "Well, if I could find any voice teacher that coul….

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

The first step in solving a problem is admitting there is a problem to be solved..

You'd be surprised how many stupid mistakes I've made. I make stupid mistakes all the time, and some of them have been very big stupid mistakes..

Participation - that's what's gonna save the human race..