I Fought For Peace In The Fifties.

I Remember Someone Once Saying, "pete, You Know You Really Should Take Voice Lessons." And I Said, "well, If I Could Find Any Voice Teacher That Could Teach Me To Sing Like Lead Belly I'd Spend Every Cent To Study Under Him." But Every Time You'd Go To A Voice Teacher, He'd Teach You To Warble, As If You'd Want To Be An Opera Singer, And That's Not What I'm Interested In.

Well, Normally I’m 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.” — Pete Seeger (on How He Felt About Attending His Big 90th Birthday Bash Last Year)

Way Back In The Old Days, Say In Europe Of The Middle Ages, You Had An Aristocracy, And They Could Afford To Pay For Musicians. The Kings And Queens Had Musicians In The Castles, And That Developed Into Symphony Orchestras And What We Call "classical Music" Now.

Now Somebody Will Ask Me, Pete, How Can You Prove These Songs Really Make A Difference? And I Have To Confess I Can't Prove A Darn Thing, Except That The People In Power Must Think They Do Something, Because They Keep The Songs Off The Air.

Shh. Listen To The Sounds That Surround You. Notice The Pitches, The Volume, The Timbre, The Many Lines Of Counterpoint. As Light Taught Monet To Paint, The Earth May Be Teaching You Music.