Pete Seeger Quotes

You know, there's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers and performers out there who sing other people's words. I enjoy doing both.

There's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers and performers out there who sing other people's words. I enjoy doing both.

The beauty of it is when you can just show up and hit the notes.

I dream about singing. I would love to sing and write.

Singing is something I love to do. I feel very confident doing it.

I need to sing and I love to travel.

I can do an OK manicure, but I need to stick to singing.

I've always been insecure about my singing. That's why I've focused so much on my songwriting.

I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.

I love to sing. It's the easiest thing for me to do.

I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium.

Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.

I really like singing, although I'm embarrassed about doing it.

I get to focus on being a musician sometimes, and I get to focus on being a vocalist sometimes.

If you don't take no chances, then you're not a performer. Performers always take chances. You go see a singer, they'll hit the high note. They'll hit that note, they're not afraid, they're gonna exaggerate the fact and make me enjoy it, make me say, 'Wow, I wish I could do that!'

Stand-up comedians say that anyone in the audience can be funny, but people paid to see us because we're just a little bit funnier. In the same way, I think anybody can play music - in fact, I think everyone has music in them, but some of us can do it a little better.

Singing is my passion, regardless of anything else that I've ever done. That's the one thing that no one can ever take away from me is my voice, and that is what I really want to do.

I have a pretty lousy voice.

There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.

Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.

I love to dance. I've been told I'm actually really good.

I always have been an entertainer, whether it's been joking or performing for people. And I always thought I had a talent, because I could rap and I could sing, and I did write. And all the other kids were going to college, but I just felt like I had to do this first, and if it didn't work, then I would go to college.

I guess I say this for younger actors out there: you have to be brave, and you have to be ready to fail, and that's the only way you can be unique. So when a director is confident enough in what they're doing, and they allow their actors to be brave and bring in stuff, the more likely it's going to work out okay.

All I do is make music.

I'm slowly working up the courage to sing in front of other people, but I can carry a tune. I do some mean karaoke.