Quotes from Pete Seeger

The world is like a seesaw out of balance: on one side is a box of big rocks, tilting it its way. On the other side is a box, and a bunch of us with teaspoons, adding a little sand at a time. One day, all of our teaspoons will add up, and the whole thing will tip, and people will say, 'How did it happen so fast?

Keep your sense of humor. There is a 50-50 chance the world can be saved. You- yes you- might be the grain of sand that tips the scales the right way.

Come back to town. Bring your darn ukelele! We don't care anymore!

Any damn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple.

Maybe Americans have found it easier to latch on to new traditions because we are uprooted people, and have few deep roots.

our technology and our economic system seem to produce the present bad situation: millions of people feel themselves poor and powerless; millions feel that music is something to be made only by experts.

I tell people I was in the U.S. Army for three and a half years in WWII -- but what did I mainly do to beat the fascists? Play the banjo.

It all boils down to what I would most like to do as a musician. Put songs on people's lips instead of just in their ears.

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.

Any damn fool can get complicated. It takes genius to attain simplicity.

The stream of the mountains pleases me more than the sea.