“In the largest sense, every work of art is protest... A lullaby is a propaganda song and any three-year-old knows it... A hymn is a controversial song - sing one in the wrong church: you'll find out...” KnowsYearsArtSongThreeChurchArt IsPropagandaProtestWorks Of ArtThree YearsControversialHymnsLullabyThree Year Olds Author:Pete Seeger
“The song Of Heaven is ever new; for daily thus, And nightly, new discoveries are made Of God's unbounded wisdom, power, and love, Which give the understanding larger room, And swell the hymn with ever-growing praise.” GivingMadeSongHeavenUnderstandingRoomsGrowingDiscoveryAnd LovePraiseHymnsNew DiscoveriesPower And Love Book:The Course of Time ... Twenty-fourth edition. With a memoir of the author Source: The Course of Time ... Twenty-fourth edition. With a memoir of the author
“In the United States, many people said you can't have folk music in the United States because you don't have any peasant class. But the funny thing was, there were literally thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people who loved old time fiddling, ballads, banjo tunes, blues played on the guitar, spirituals and gospel hymns. These songs and music didn't fit into any neat category of art music nor popular music nor jazz. So gradually they said well let's call it folk music.” PeopleWellsArtSaidStatesSongUnitedClassUnited StatesFitJazzGuitarFolksTunesCategoriesThey SaidFunny ThingsPeasantsNeatHymnsFolk MusicBalladsOld TimePopular MusicArt MusicBanjos Author:Pete Seeger
“I totally accept that it's a legitimate criticism that when you are involved in the day-to-day scrum of government that what can get lost is the narrative, the hymn sheet the song that inspires and lifts people's sights.” PeopleGovernmentSongLostAcceptingInspireInvolvedCriticismSightLiftsNarrativeDay To DaySheetsHymnsScrum Author:Nick Clegg