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

If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always seem to get people to sing with me..

Honest songs aren`t written for money..

There is an old Arabic proverb, 'When the king puts the poet on his payroll, he cuts off the tongue of the poet', so throughout the ages, people in p….

I was working for Alan Lomax in the Library of Congress folk song archive, and starting to realize what a wealth of different kinds of music there wa….

Now any person who plays an acoustic guitar standing up on stage with a microphone is a folk singer. Some grandmother with a baby in her arms singing….

My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff..

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

Now somebody will ask me, Pete, how can you prove these songs really make a difference? And I have to confess I can't prove a darn thing, except that….

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 he….

There is something about participating; it is almost my religion. If the world is still here in 100 years, people will know the importance of partici….

I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an ab….

When I got out of school, I spent two years just hitchhiking around. Every time I met some old farmer who could play banjo, I got him to teach me a l….

After visits to several Communist countries (USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Slovenia, East Germany, Vietnam, China, Cuba), I feel strongly that most "….

My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's..

The first country conquered by any dictator is his own country..

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….

A song is like a picture of a bird in flight; the bird was moving before the picture was taken, and no doubt continued after..

I get up each morning, gather my wits, pick up the paper and read the obits. If I'm not there, I know I'm not dead, so I eat a good breakfast and go ….

There's a story behind every old ballad or work song or nonsense song that I ever knew. Sometimes it's a fascinating story. A story of people struggl….

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