“Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. H...” — P. J. O'Rourke Quote

“Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters.”

“Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.”

“Of all the American educational system's problems, none is more severe than the academic year beginning before Labor Day.”

“I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs note by note. Learned how to play that way. I persevered. There was a book written by Pete Seeger, who showed you some basic strumming and some basic picking... And I kind of worked out my own style of playing.”

“I love five-string banjo. On an electric guitar, let's say a two-hour show, it starts getting heavy right across the neck and shoulders. And I like to be able to flip it off and grab the fiddle, and that's just the way I do it.”