I was working for Alan Lomax in the Library of Congress folk song archive, and starting to realize what a wealth of different kinds of music there was in this country that you never heard on the radio.
Pete SeegerHowever, 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 SeegerWell, normally Iām 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.ā ā Pete Seeger (on how he felt about attending his big 90th birthday bash last year)
Pete SeegerI never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist.
Pete Seeger