Pete Seeger Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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.”

“My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.”

“You'd be surprised how many stupid mistakes I've made. I make stupid mistakes all the time, and some of them have been very big stupid mistakes.”

“I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me.”

“But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.”

“Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties.”