Source: Where Have All the Flowers Gone?: A Singer's Stories, Songs, Seeds, Robberies
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Famous Pete Seeger Quotes
“If it can't be … reused, repaired … then it should be … redesigned or removed from production.”
Source: Pete Seeger in His Own Words
“The world will be saved by people fighting for their homes.”
“Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same.”
“This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit.”
“Sometimes you find an old tune so good you can use it several times for different purposes.”
“The first country conquered by any dictator is his own country.”
“My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.”
“My mother gave me a ukulele at age eight, and I sang the popular tunes of the day.”
“I never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist.”