Pete Seeger Quotes About Singing

Quotes about: Singing

• There is no such thing as a wrong note ... just as long as you're singing along.

  Pete Seeger

  Long, Singing, Notes

• Singing with children in the schools has been the most rewarding experience of my life.

  Pete Seeger

  Children, School, Singing

• Song, songs kept them going and going; They didn't realize the millions of seeds they were sowing. They were singing in marches, even singing in jail. Songs gave them the courage to believe they would not fail.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Believe, Jail

  Song: Take It from DrKing

• Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Singing, Glad

  "When Pete Seeger Faced Down the House Un-American Activities Committee" by Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. January 28, 2014.

• We all go to different churches or no churches, we have different favorite foods, different ways of making love, different ways of doing all sorts of things, but there we're all singing together. Gives you hope.

  Pete Seeger

  Giving, Making Love, Singing

• A good song can only do good, and I am proud of the songs I have sung. I hope to be able to continue singing these songs for all who want to listen, Republicans, Democrats, and independents.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Singing, Want

  Pete Seeger, Rob Rosenthal, Sam Rosenthal (2015). “Pete Seeger in His Own Words”, p.155, Routledge

• The danger with the internet is that you don't need to think about music, you just search for it and you find the answer. Singing used to be part of everyday life. Women sang while pounding corn. Men sang while paddling canoes.

  Pete Seeger

  Men, Thinking, Everyday

  Source: peoplesworld.org

• Now any person who plays an acoustic guitar standing up on stage with a microphone is a folk singer. Some grandmother with a baby in her arms singing a 500-year-old song, well, she's not a folk singer, she's not on stage with a guitar and a microphone. No, she's just an old grandmother singing an old song. The term "folk singer" has gotten warped.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Baby, Grandmother

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

• I try to sing many different kinds of songs. If I sing a batch of humorous songs, I'll throw in a deadly serious song. Or if I'm singing too many serious songs, I'll throw in a ridiculous song, to mix it up.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Humorous, Singing

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 3, 2008.

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