Explore Quotes by Pete Seeger

You have a right to your opinion and I've got a right to mine. Period.

Honest songs aren`t written for money.

There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it without power to save it. In a small way, every single one of us counts.

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

All songwriters are links in a chain.

Food is one of the great organizing tools.

I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think.

When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn?

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

People are combining traditions like never before and finding somehow a fundamental unity for this human race of ours. I think working with each other as Jeff Haynes has done here-we may be surprised to find what deeper unity all human beings have.

Parents are the hardest-working members of the population. But they do it for the highest wages. Kisses.

My job, is to show folks there's a lot of good music in this world, and if used right it may help to save the planet.

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

Just as with other great words, the word environment means different things. You might say that a cave woman twenty thousand years ago sweeping out the cave was improving the environment. Many people improving the environment think only in terms of the air they breathe in their hometown and the water in the aquifer under their hometown. My guess is very few are thinking centuries ahead or thousand of years ahead, but that's what we have to do.

If there's a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things. The powers-that-be can break up any big thing they want. They can corrupt it or co-opt it from the inside, or they can attack it from the outside. But what are they going to do about 10 million little things? They break up two of them, and three more like them spring up!

But if two and two and fifty make a million...

Most scientists know what needs to be done to save our Earth. But the politicians don't listen to them. They will listen to popular pressure; the people got to supply that.

There is no such thing as a wrong note ... just as long as you're singing along.

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'

I’ve found that festivals are a relatively painless way to meet people and make a few points that need making, without having to hit them over the head with too many speeches.

To everything there is a season.