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Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger
American Musician
Born: May 3, 1919
Died: Jan 27, 2014
Country Life Me People Think You
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It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with. Pete Seeger
You People Disagree Important Talk Learn Important Thing Very Thing
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. Pete Seeger
Education You Experience Fine Fine Print Read Print Get
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
Education You Experience Fine Fine Print Between Do You Know Know Read Print Get Difference
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 that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart. Pete Seeger
World Will Sense Rich Believe Think Tremendous Pressures Come Still Contract Survive Get Getting Just Apart Social Poor Social Contract Poorer Richer Communist
Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live. Pete Seeger
Wonderful Live Way Spirit Generous Wonderful Way Being
When you're facing an opponent over a broad front, you don't aim for the opponent's strong points, important though they may be. Pick a little outpost that you can capture and win. And then you find another place that you can capture and win it, and then you move slowly toward the big places. Pete Seeger
You Strong Win Important Big Aim Broad Though Find Slowly Facing Points Pick Toward Over Another Opponent Front May Move Place Places Little Then Capture
I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life. Pete Seeger
Life Religion Political Matter Situation Skin Every Sung Color Never Sing Audience Proud Am American Refuse Persuasion
I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think. Pete Seeger
Good You People Song Think Laugh Good Song Reminding Cry Makes Editorial Rhyme Keep
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. Pete Seeger
Music Good Together World Bad Because Around Tangled Up American African Happened Loved Rhythm Good And Bad Popular Popular Music Slavery
Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches. Pete Seeger
Will Books Neither Songs Planet Save Speeches
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. Pete Seeger
Education Depression Man Single Met Teenager Out Jobs Guthrie Had He Part Nobody Along Named Came Woody Biggest Woody Guthrie
Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business. Pete Seeger
Business Will Singing Say Tell Sung Glad Songs Because Again Ever
But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them. Pete Seeger
People Other Say Sung Written Listened Them Decline Who Ever
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. Pete Seeger
Me People Else Sung Compulsion Songs Known Discuss Where Decline Who
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. Pete Seeger
Conservative Back Say More He Like Clock Than Just Tax Wanted Turn Income Income Tax
I try to sing many different kinds of songs. If I sing a batch of humorous songs, I'll throw in a deadly serious song. Or if I'm singing too many serious songs, I'll throw in a ridiculous song, to mix it up. Pete Seeger
Song Try Singing Different Kinds Too Batch Humorous Kinds Throw Songs Sing Deadly Mix Up Different Many Serious Ridiculous

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