Pete Seeger Quotes

Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.

I'm an artist, and I like the risk - I'm not in it for the sure things.

It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?

Never try to make the same record twice, even when people are screaming for the same sound.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

The cable makers are the ones who are willing to take risks and do something original and push the envelope some.

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

I think music needs danger; it needs risk.

It is not necessary to be too avant-garde, because you risk not being understood.

Everybody wants you to do this thing that you've always been doing forever. That's what they want: they want Martin Scorsese to make the same film two hundred times rather than trying to be something different.

I wanted to drop three albums in a year because no one had done it. It was bold, unheard of.

I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk.

I may play the same program from one recital to the next, but I will play it differently, and because it is always different, it is always new.

I'm all about risque - I love that stuff. I love to be creative - that's what the entertainment business is about.

I think if you don't risk something in art, it's not really important.

Just finding ways to be not provocative for provocative's sake, but to show an idea that hasn't been shown before, I mean that's interesting to me.

Movies that look safe are less interesting.

I would much rather see somebody bring something new to a genre than produce something that seems safe.

The danger with success in television is "Haven't we shot this episode before? Didn't we shoot this scene two years ago?" I think it's really hard to just take the risk from season to season and not be afraid to give the audience something completely different, and trust that they'll come with you.

We're in a very competitive industry, and sometimes the bigger Hollywood things are not so risk takey. I find myself mostly existing in this weirdo indie world, which I feel really comfortable being in. The thing that motivates me the most is to try to do something way different than the last thing that I did.

Sometimes performing someone else's song is more difficult than writing your own.

I'd rather take risks than make something that's cookie cutter.

An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before?

Failure is built into creativity... the creative act involves this element of 'newness' and 'experimentalism,' then one must expect and accept the possibility of failure.

I learned how to be more theatrical and have more fun, and to take a song and sing it over and over again in different ways, and make it different each time. I'm not just singing the song - it's this thing that's affecting me.