Pete Seeger: Quotes about the world

Pete Seeger was American folk singer. Explore interesting quotes on world.
Pete Seeger: 76 quotes1 like

“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)”

Pete Seeger

“The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.”

Pete Seeger

Pete Seeger's Storytelling Book, 2001, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ISBN 0156013118, p. 220

“The world will be saved by people fighting for their homes.”

Pete Seeger

NPR: Weekend Edition (2 July 2005)

“The key to the future of the world, is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.”

Pete Seeger

"Pete Seeger, Songwriter and Champion of Folk Music, Dies at 94" New York Times (28 January 2014)

“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.”

Pete Seeger

Lyrics added to "We Shall Overcome" by Seeger in the late 1940s, whose musical arrangement and renditions helped popularize the song among civil-rights activists in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He also changed the primary lines from from "We Will Overcome" to "We Shall Overcome".