Pete Seeger Quotes

I tend to gravitate toward ballads and mid-tempo songs.

Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records.

I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.

I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot.

When Merle and I started out we called our music 'traditional plus,' meaning the traditional music of the Appalachian region plus whatever other styles we were in the mood to play.

I love bluegrass music, I love acoustic music, and I try at the right times to push that a little bit.

I still dabble in different types of music, but I'm sticking to my Country roots.

At a time when club music has gone more electronic, I've gone the other way: organic and world music.

I always play songs that are very based in folk music.

To be honest, the acoustic stuff's my favorite thing to do.

I like music more balanced between the voice and the guitar and the percussion. I don't like heavy metal.

I love folk. I love rap.

I never really liked the lyrics or the sameness of the music. It always seemed to have the same rhythm or whatever. But when it turned a little more rock, I kind of liked it. I like what Kid Rock did to country. I like all the modern, new stuff that's coming out, and it just so happens that my boyfriend is not a country player, but he was a rock musician.

Just because I don't sing about the normal country themes doesn't mean my songs aren't country. I'd rather sing about having fun.

As of right this second my main focus is my new album, it'll be out probably towards the summertime, predominately R&B this time. I had a little stint with the dance music and all of that, which I had a good time with- and I love the audience, I love them for accepting me doing it -but I had to go home on this one. Had to take it back to my roots, and not to say that there won't be one, maybe two songs on there that the dance crowd can get into, but the majority, the girth of the album, will be R&B.

A lot of [my] songs have a sexuality to them, a vibe to them. ... I call it sexy rock and roll.

Of course the folk guitar is the one I play very often, but I wanted a more electric sound.

Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because we wrote our own music and that changed everything.

I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.

I'm very proud of all the bluegrass-oriented albums. It just reminded me and my fans that I should always record acoustic music and country records, along with anything else that I might want to do.

My older brother was involved in the folk movement. We would gather every weekend in Washington Park. The folk songs were so important to my reality.

I love all the '90s kind of grunge, and I love classic rock: That's where the spectrum lies.

I never could understand - it was impossible for me to get my head around - what the furor was, what the sense of betrayal and anger and rage was about Bob Dylan's beginning to perform with a band, to play rock-and-roll, to get on the radio.

When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs. A Frank Sinatra album sets a certain mood, just as a Clash record sets another.

What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.