Peter Seeger , také známý jako Pete Seeger, byl americký folkový zpěvák a politický aktivista, autor folkových písní a protestsongů 50. a 60. let 20. století, sběratel lidových písní. Wikipedia
„Rýmovaný sloupek není píseň. Dobrá skladba tě rozesměje, rozpláče, donutí tě přemýšlet.“
Originál: (en) An editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think.
Zdroj: [Shen, Aviva, Pete Seeger: Where Have All the Protest Songs Gone?, Smithsonian Magazine, http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/pete-seeger-where-have-all-the-protest-songs-gone-159453359/, 2014-01-29, 2012-04]
Originál: (en) I usually tell people if the human race is still here in a hundred years, one of the main things that will save us is the arts.
Zdroj: [Shen, Aviva, Pete Seeger: Where Have All the Protest Songs Gone?, Smithsonian Magazine, http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/pete-seeger-where-have-all-the-protest-songs-gone-159453359/, 2014-01-29, 2012-04]
" The Old Left http://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/22/magazine/sunday-january-22-1995-the-old-left.html?n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/S/Seeger,%20Pete", New York Times Magazine, 22 January 1995, sect. 6 p. 13
Zdroj: How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seeger (1981), p. 119
" The Old Left http://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/22/magazine/sunday-january-22-1995-the-old-left.html?n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/S/Seeger,%20Pete", New York Times Magazine, 22 January 1995, sect. 6 p. 13
“The key to the future of the world, is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.”
"Pete Seeger, Songwriter and Champion of Folk Music, Dies at 94" New York Times (28 January 2014)
“There's no hope, but I may be wrong.”
NPR: Weekend Edition (2 July 2005)
Pop Chronicles, Show 1 - Play A Simple Melody: Pete Seeger on the origins of pop music http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19745/m1/, interview recorded 2.14.1968 http://web.archive.org/web/20110615153027/http://www.library.unt.edu/music/special-collections/john-gilliland/o-s.
“Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.”
"We Shall Overcome: An Hour With Legendary Folk Singer & Activist Pete Seeger" on Democracy Now (4 September 2006) http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/04/1416217&mode=thread&tid=25
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".
