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)

If there's a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things. The powers-that-be can break up any big thing they want. They can corrupt it or co-opt it from the inside, or they can attack it from the outside. But what are they going to do about 10 million little things? They break up two of them, and three more like them spring up!

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.

Realize that little things lead to bigger things.

The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.

Sometimes you find an old tune so good you can use it several times for different purposes.

One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties.