Pete Seeger Quotes

I love to sing with different people.

I say if you can find somebody you can make music with, that's a special thing, so you should try to keep it going.

I love people. I love being in a band. I love making music.

As musicians, we have one of the greatest tools of bringing people together in music.

I had always been aware of George's importance to me, of the bond of friendship and of the sparkle and light, effervescence and electricity that suffused the music we made.

The life I love is making music with my friends.

I just think that with music, it's kind of like life, and so the people you work with, you generally develop a relationship. You don't have to try to explain things. You just know. It's like you're in the band together and striving for the same goal.

I've performed in China, France, New Delhi, and Indianapolis, and everybody just allows themselves to go at it and have a good time. I think that's what I'm doing through music. It's not about 'I'm from here and you're from there.' It's about unity.

When Phil and I hit that one spot where I call it 'The Everly Brothers,' I don't know where it is. 'Cause it's not me and it's not him. It's the two of us together. I sing the lead, and so I can drift off. Then we'll come back in together and the whole thing happens again. It amazes me sometimes.

People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.

I think there's a natural chemistry between us as friends; and there's really no separation between the rapport that we feel when we're in conversation and when we're playing music, it's one in the same.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

Music brings people together. So my function in anything I do is to help bring people closer in.

One of the things I like to do is to try to jam with everybody.

Music is a tool that brings people together.

I think with the right person and the right music, people from all walks of life can come together. I know that's what my life was about. I've seen it all, so that's what I want to bring to the table.

Leave your ego, play the music, love the people.

I just want to work with people, so I always try to find a way to collaborate in the best way for the music.

Concert' doesn’t mean standing up like a target in front of thousands of strangers. It means coming together. It means harmony.

There's something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. This wonderful little world that is unassailable. It's really teamwork, one guy supporting the others, and it's all for one purpose, and there's no flies in the ointment, for a while. And nobody conducting, it's all up to you. It's really jazz__that's the big secret. Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.

I want to convey that there is hope? that we're a world that is in turmoil but there is hope. I'm always amazed at how much love is in people's hearts even when they disagree about things. I think it's important for people to come together in music. It reminds me of the Margaret Mead saying, 'Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. ' I think that's really true.

We want to generate the electricity of peace through music, and it’s a thrill to know that the super-creative, enthusiastic musicians of our world are with us to achieve this goal.

If you hear a good song, it makes you hopeful like, 'That is out there.'