“‘My job,’ he said in 2009, ‘is to show folks there’s a lot of good music in this world, and if used right it may help to save the planet.'” Pete Seeger, songwriter, archivist, activist, and godfather of the folk revival,
1919–
2014.
“‘The key to the future of the world,’ he said in 1994, ‘is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.'”