Pete Seeger Quotes

Lyricists play with words.

Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.

Songs are all poetry, and they don't make any sense.

I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.

A really good poem is full of music.

Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath.

I'm actually a true lyricist.

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

You just go where poetry is, whether it's in your heart or your mind or in books or in places where there's live poetry or recordings.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound.

Poetry is composing for the breath.

Poetry is meant to be heard.

I love an imperfect rhyme.

I like lyrics a lot.

I'm really into poetry.

I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

There's such a huge difference between a great arrangement of riffs and a song. Sometimes the two can be the same. But the difference is a song doesn't necessarily need a riff, whereas a riff doesn't necessarily mean you've got a good song on your hands.

Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.