Almanac Singers Quotes

But if by some freak of history communism had caught up with this country, I would have been one of the first people thrown in jail. 
Pete Seeger 

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. 
Pete Seeger 

Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent. 
Pete Seeger 

Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. 
Pete Seeger 

Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions. 
Pete Seeger 

I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs. 
Pete Seeger 

I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches. 
Pete Seeger 

I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me. 
Pete Seeger 

I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known. 
Pete Seeger 

I fought for peace in the fifties. 
Pete Seeger 

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life. 
Pete Seeger 

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. 
Pete Seeger 

I know many beautiful songs from your home county, Carbon, and Monroe, and I hitchhiked through there and stayed in the homes of miners. 
Pete Seeger 

I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax. 
Pete Seeger 

I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American. 
Pete Seeger 

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. 
Pete Seeger 

I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be very glad to tell you my life if you want to hear of it. 
Pete Seeger 

I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other. 
Pete Seeger 

Many Americans knew their lives and their souls were being struggled for, and they fought for it. And I felt I should carry on. 
Pete Seeger 

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

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

Through the sixties I still had to occasionally free picket lines and bomb threats. 
Pete Seeger