If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable.
Pete SeegerEdison failed ten thousand times before he perfected the modern electric lamp. The average man would have quit at the first failure. That's why there are so many average men and only one Edison.
Pete SeegerMy father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's.
Pete Seeger