Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger
Peter "Pete" Seegerwas an American folk singer and social activist. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of the Weavers, most notably their recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene", which topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950. Members of the Weavers were blacklisted during the McCarthy Era. In the 1960s, he re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFolk Singer
Date of Birth3 May 1919
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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.
In a world of private property, if something isn't owned by somebody, it's going to be misused by somebody else.
How can you save the world you have not seen if you can't save the community you have seen?
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.
If there is a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things.
The world will be solved by millions of small things.
Well, normally I’m against big things. I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things. Too many things can go wrong when they get big.” — Pete Seeger (on how he felt about attending his big 90th birthday bash last year)
Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent.
I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things.
My job, is to show folks there's a lot of good music in this world, and if used right it may help to save the planet.
The key to the future of the world, is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.
This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit.
Songs wont save the planet, but neither will books or speeches. Songs are sneaky things; they can slip across borders.
Malvina was one of the great people of the 20th century,