Pete Seeger Quotes

When I first became aware of music, it was probably the same way a lot of people do - even more suburban or rural people - from my older brothers playing music.

The inspiration for our vocal harmonies was sort of Appalachian. It's sort of at weird intervals, and it almost has an Appalachian kind of feel to it. The harmonies were really spontaneous. And the way we jammed, we would just get into a trance.

I was about 16 years old years when my father took me to a square dance festival in North Carolina. For the first time in my life, I found there was music in my country that you never heard on the radio, and you didn't hear on the juke boxes, and in theaters. I fell in love with it, especially the long-necked banjos.

Geoff Muldaur was and is one of my musical heroes. When I listen to him sing and play, I can hear the coal mine, the cotton field, and last, but certainly foremost, the boy's boarding school.

My father's music is all I remember from my childhood.

My dad helped me understand songwriting because of him playing Babyface a lot. I don't even know if my dad realized that him just being him, him just living his life, loving what he loved, poured more into me than anybody ever would know.

I kind of have found my identity through the music, through the roots music of North Carolina, and kind of realized that that's my identity as a North Carolinian.

In the neighborhood that I grew up in - in New York on Long Island - there were a lot of musicians. For some reason, that time in history in our town in New York, everybody played. So it was all around me.

When I was about 9, my brother, who's six years older than me, started getting guitar lessons, and I wouldn't say that it inspired me to pick up an instrument: it was more me being like, 'Well, if he's getting guitar lessons, then so am I. I'm not missing out,' type of thing.

You may not hear much bluegrass on the surface of my music, but I feel the emotion I put in a song comes from bluegrass. Bluegrass taught me to interpret a song, not just sing it.

I was about 14, and I got hooked on the music of the Stanley Brothers.

When I was a kid, I was interested in folk music. But rock represented power, and I became the best rock guitarist in my school.

My dad had his own business and was extremely busy, but on a very rare occasion, he would play guitar and sing a bit. I was always fascinated by it. I wrote my first song in first grade because my dad was making songs up during those special moments, and it seemed like a fun thing to try myself.

I think that if you hear music young, whatever music you hear influences you. I'm white, but I've been influenced by black music.

There's nothing purer than Janette Carter with an autoharp.

Music changes kids, and kids change the world.

My mom loves music and it poured into my childhood.

As I listened more and more to the music that moved me, I gained more fascination with America.

I get inspired by a lot of different stuff. My father is a huge music fan.

I first heard Mahler's second symphony aged 11 in Liverpool, and it inspired me to become a conductor.

My mother and father are big musical heroes of mine. I think it was because it was the first memories that I have of actually hearing music and falling in love with it and wanting to be a part of it in some way.

In my home, we listened to music all the time. I was raised through music, and I've been interested in it since I was three.

My father played music, so I was always around music, even from the time I was born. My father actually was the one that originally got me into music.

When I was younger, music was always there.

My earliest memories have to do with music.