However, the agricultural revolution took thousands of years, the Industrial Revolution took hundreds, and the information revolution only took decades. So, who knows what's going to happen in the next few decades, especially with the women's revolution.
Pete SeegerIf I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable.
Pete SeegerNow any person who plays an acoustic guitar standing up on stage with a microphone is a folk singer. Some grandmother with a baby in her arms singing a 500-year-old song, well, she's not a folk singer, she's not on stage with a guitar and a microphone. No, she's just an old grandmother singing an old song. The term "folk singer" has gotten warped.
Pete SeegerBut I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.
Pete Seeger