I was never enthusiastic about being somebody who was supposed to be silent about being a member of something.
Pete SeegerThe easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.
Pete SeegerI learned by transcribing songs out of the Library of Congress collection in Washington where I was working. I got a job when I just turned twenty in 1939 and Alan [Lomax] needed some help. I listened to hundreds of records every week.
Pete SeegerJohn Adams and Thomas Jefferson corresponded for 13 years before they died on the same day. They asked, "How can one have prosperity without commerce? How can one have commerce without luxury? How can one have luxury without corruption? How can you have corruption without the end of the Republic?" And they really didn't know the answer.
Pete Seeger