Pete Seeger Quotes
We'll walk hand in hand We'll walk hand in hand We'll walk hand in hand some day... The whole wide world around some day.
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Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.
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When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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The degree that these scenes went to... there was a couple of days I was upset... I'd have to hurry back to the girls in the makeup trailer and have a bit of a cry because it messes with your head.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.
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I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.
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You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
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I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
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My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.
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What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.
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What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want to make a comeback, and normally that begins with somebody saying, 'I want to do something to help people. I want to do something to help the lepers in the Third World. I want to do something to help abandoned wives in India.'
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To give this activity even covert support is of a piece with the hypocrisy and cynicism for which the United States is constantly denouncing the Soviet Union in the United Nations and elsewhere. This point will not be lost on the rest of the world-nor on our own consciences.
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Not everyone's high standards have to be the same thing.
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I have such respect for... the Kennedy Center Honors. To be an artist in America and to be honored for it is extraordinary. In Europe, they really honor their artists. And you are on a very high level. And here it's not as revered as it is in Europe or Russia or anywhere in the world.
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The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.
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We'll walk hand in hand We'll walk hand in hand We'll walk hand in hand some day... The whole wide world around some day.
