Peter Yarrow Quotes

#1. Puff, the Magic Dragon, lived by the sea, and frolicked in the Autumn Mist in a land called Honah Lee, little Jacky Paper loved that rascal Puff, and gave him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff.

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#2. People may say 'What can I do? I'm only one person.' But we've proven that when we come together demonstrate, and speak our piece, there is no way the power structure can avoid being attentive.

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#3. Such honesty comes with a price, but when you get past the hurt and shock of realizing that you're faulted and frequently wrong, you also realize that you are really loved and respected for who you are, and you become a better person.

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#4. The songs worked as a different kind of rhetoric, one that could reach the fence-sitters.

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#5. * We have come this far always believing
that justice would somehow prevail.
This is the burden, this is the promise,
and THIS is why we will not fail.

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#6. There is only one river. There is only one sea.
And it flows through you, and it flows through me.
There is only one people. We are one and the same.
We are all one spirit. We are all one name.

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#7. We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous action - lest we fail to walk in the shoes of those we might injure.

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#8. The spirit of Woody Guthrie lives in the heart of
Chris Chandler.

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#9. People can overcome their differences, and when united, move toward a world of greater fairness and justice. As in folk music, each person has a unique role to play.

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#10. We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.

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#11. The ethic behind songs of conscience doesn't change, even though the issues are altered from generation to generation.

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#12. Such times of crisis have inevitably brought 'music of conscience' to the fore and I expect we will be hearing more and more of it in the immediate future. When people feel empowered to come together and raise their voices, also will mean raising their voices in song as well.

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#13. I feel like I need to sing again.

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#14. A flip-flopper is an intelligent person who changes position when the circumstance changes.

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#15. To cure the violence, we must identify and heal the causes of hatred and violence. If we don't deal with the causes we will never be safe.

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#16. When people sing together, community is created. Together we rejoice, we celebrate, we mourn and we comfort each other. Through music, we reach each others hearts and souls. Music allows us to find a connection.

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#17. The songs we sing invite the participation of the listener, who is central to finding a way of creating the life of the song at that listening. It's the difference between poetry and didactic writing. One tells you, 'This is it,' and the other says, 'Let's find this together.'

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