The key to the future of the world is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.

But if two and two and fifty make a million...

Music does affect your opinions. Plato is supposed to have said "It's very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music into the republic."

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

There is an old Arabic proverb, 'When the king puts the poet on his payroll, he cuts off the tongue of the poet', so throughout the ages, people in power have liked to control music, they used to throw songwriters in jail throughout history, and were assassinated.

My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.

Well, normally I’m against big things. I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things. Too many things can go wrong when they get big.” — Pete Seeger (on how he felt about attending his big 90th birthday bash last year)