Occupation: Singer Birth: May 3, 1919 Death: January 27, 2014
When you play the 12-string guitar,you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune..
But if two and two and fifty make a million....
A good song can only do good, and I am proud of the songs I have sung. I hope to be able to continue singing these songs for all who want to listen, ….
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'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think tha….
Hope that there are many, many small leaders..
My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'.
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….
Not everybody has to sing the melody..
I live in the country, so I get a fair amount of exercise. We heat our house with wood, so I split wood. We also live on a steep hill, and I have to ….
He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young actor named Burl Ives and sai….
A good song reminds us what we're fighting for..
If you love this land of the free, bring them home, bring them home, Bring them back from overseas..
I always knew that sooner or later there would come somebody like Woody Guthrie who could make a great song every week. Dylan certainly had a social ….
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….
I have to resist the temptation to want to learn everything. You know, you can't. You have to restrict yourself at some time, or else you find yourse….
Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business..
The world will be solved by millions of small things..
This banjo surrounds hate and forces it to surrender..
Many Americans knew their lives and their souls were being struggled for, and they fought for it. And I felt I should carry on..
Alan Lomax is the person who I think should be given major credit for what has been called the "Folk Song Revival." My father participated with him b….