Pete Seeger Quotes

There are no wrong notes.

I'm just excited I get to sing all the time. There's nothing but open ears of people wanting to listen.

When I start playing I'm just a rollercoaster of sound. I don't know what's coming next, I never do, and I sit and sign and talk to the people afterwards.

I'm not thinking about what needs to be on the radio. I'm not thinking about anything other than - I'm just going to let this music come out of me and not have any sort of preconceived notion of what I should do. I'm just going to do it.

I love to sing random stuff. That's exciting for me.

It feels good to sing. Everybody should sing!

I always loved singing. No matter where I was, I would just make up my own stuff.

My thing is whatever comes at me, I'm there. But DJ-ing and music is my passion... I'm going to be unpredictable.

I just love to sing. It makes me feel great, so I'm gonna keep going.

I loved the freedom of improvised music.

Jazz voices that unvanquishable, natural will toward creaativity and self-expression, depite everything, in the here and now.

As long as you're dancing, you can break the rules.

I think that music, or at least the kind of music that I make, benefits greatly from improvisation.

To me, jazz is a place where anything is possible.

Jazz is my adventure.

You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key.

I like to improvise.

I just love to play and I get a chance to play with other musicians and I jump on it.

If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.

I think I was just bored one summer afternoon, and I decided to post a little video of me singing and playing guitar out of tune.

There's something about singing that I just love. It makes me feel freer than anything in the world.

See, there were certain rules I'd always used, and people like Trane, they would break those rules.

Sometimes my mistakes turn into interesting music because I do things that aren't supposed to be done.

I'm by no means a pianist. I think that's safe to say, but the piano, for me, I would say it's the enabler. It gave me what I needed and gives me what I need in order to write a song. And I think playing or improvising on the piano is where I feel most liberated and sort of less conscious of all my insecurities or inadequacies.

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.