Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger
Peter "Pete" Seegerwas an American folk singer and social activist. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of the Weavers, most notably their recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene", which topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950. Members of the Weavers were blacklisted during the McCarthy Era. In the 1960s, he re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFolk Singer
Date of Birth3 May 1919
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
In a few lines of poetry he captured one of the great contradictions of the world: the heroism of people doing something, even knowing it was a crazy something. And he showed how the establishment has used music for thousands of years to support its way of thinking.
It was not going to be a graceful symbol of the past. It was going to try to restore the river.
This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit.
I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.
If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.
The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.
I never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist.
Food is one of the great organizing tools.
Did you ever want something really bad and then when you finally got it all you could do was stand there and grin at it?
Not everybody has to sing the melody.
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.
To everything there is a season.
But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.
All songwriters are links in a chain.