Explore Quotes by Pete Seeger

Every time I'm in the woods, i feel like I'm in church.

Hope that there are many, many small leaders.

Songwriters can’t explain. You get an idea and you don’t know where it’s come from. And if you’re lucky, you have a pencil or pen and can write it down.

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

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

And there's a wonderful parable in the New Testament: The sower scatters seeds. Some seeds fall in the pathway and get stamped on, and they don't grow. Some fall on the rocks, and they don't grow. But some seeds fall on fallow ground, and they grow and multiply a thousandfold. Who knows where some good little thing that you've done may bring results years later that you never dreamed of?

I feel most spiritual when I'm out in the woods. I feel part of nature. Or looking up at the stars. [I used to say] I was an atheist. Now I say, it's all according to your definition of God. According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes I'm looking at God.

Some may find them merely diverting melodies. Others may find them incitements to Red revolution. And who will say if either or both is wrong? Not I.

Realize that little things lead to bigger things.

The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.

We all go to different churches or no churches, we have different favorite foods, different ways of making love, different ways of doing all sorts of things, but there we're all singing together. Gives you hope.

If there's something wrong, speak up!

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.

Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.

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

Well, it's one of the things that will. Words are good, and words help us become the leading species on earth to the point where we are now ready to wipe ourselves off the earth. But I think that all the arts are needed, and sports too, and cooking, food, and all these different ways of communication. Smiles, looking into eyes directly, all these different means of communication are needed to save this world. But certainly a great melody

Do-so is more important than say-so.

I write a song because I want to. I think the moment you start writing it to make money, you're starting to kill yourself artistically.

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

I have come to the conclusion that there is nothing good that doesn't have bad consequences and nothing bad that doesn't have good consequences.

If there is a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things.