Top 39 Quotes by Pete Seeger

I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known.

The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for slavery.

I feel that my whole life is a contribution.

I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs.

My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.

I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

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 get people to sing with me.

But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.

I came along and was a teenager in the Depression, and nobody had jobs. So I went out hitchhiking, when I met a man named Woody Guthrie. He was the single biggest part of my education.

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.