Talk:Pete Seeger

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Merge notice[edit]

Material from David King Dunaway was merged into this article before its deletion. The edit history of that article is:

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  • (cur) (last) 11:34, 20 November 2005 (UTC) MosheZadka (Talk | contribs | block) (some miniature intro)
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  • (cur) (last) 01:55, 5 September 2005 (UTC) MosheZadka (Talk | contribs | block) (no-intro)
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Jeff Q (talk) 13:40, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Unsourced[edit]

These quotes are transferred here from the article because they lack sources.

  • Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple.
  • My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's. I apologize [in his recent book] for following the party line so slavishly, for not seeing that Stalin was a supremely cruel misleader.
    • This is from the same "The Old Left" interview quoted twice in the article. I think this plain statement is not nearly as quoteworthy as the other two. Perhaps something from the actual book he refers to would be better? ~ Ningauble 17:53, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is what you get when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
  • Sir, I refuse to answer that question whether it is a quote from the New York Times or the Vegetarian Journal. ... 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. I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent this 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, or I might be a vegetarian, make me any less of an American.
    • Response when asked, before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, whether a performance of his had been advertised in the Daily Worker

"if it can't be reduced, reused"[edit]

On the Internet you can find a lot of pages that refer to Pete Seeger as a source for a quote that starts with "if it can't be reduced, reused". I have tried to verify it, but I am still unsure whether he actually said this. Does anyone know? 130.226.41.9 14:53, 4 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]