American - Musician | May 3, 1919 - January 27, 2014
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.
Pete Seeger
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One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties.
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I fought for peace in the fifties.
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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 life if you want to hear of it.
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I feel that my whole life is a contribution.
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Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.
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But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.
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I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.
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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.
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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.
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I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany.
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My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.
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