I’ve found that festivals are a relatively painless way to meet people and make a few points that need making, without having to hit them over the head with too many speeches.

Now somebody will ask me, Pete, how can you prove these songs really make a difference? And I have to confess I can't prove a darn thing, except that the people in power must think they do something, because they keep the songs off the air.

I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.

I have come to the conclusion that there is nothing good that doesn't have bad consequences and nothing bad that doesn't have good consequences.

My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's.

This banjo surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.

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