Quotes from Pete Seeger

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's.

Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary.

Food is one of the great organizing tools.

The key to the future of the world is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

I fought for peace in the fifties.

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.

Education is when you read the fine print experience is what you get when you don't.

Where have all the flowers gone?The girls have picked them every one.Oh, when will they ever learn?

We're waist deep in the Big MuddyAnd the big fool says to push on.

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.

Not everybody has to sing the melody.

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.

If it can't be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.

Participation - that's what's gonna save the human race.

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)

The American Indians were Communists. They were. Every anthropologist will tell you they were Communists. No rich, no poor. If somebody needed something the community chipped in.

It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.

I've never sung anywhere without giving the people listening to me a chance to join in - as a kid, as a lefty, as a man touring the U.S.A. and the world, as an oldster. I guess it's kind of a religion with me. Participation. That's what's going to save the human race.

This banjo surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.

Education is what you get when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

The world will be solved by millions of small things.

Singing with children in the schools has been the most rewarding experience of my life.