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Song Quotes by Pete Seeger
- I write a song because I want to. I think the moment you start writing it to make money, you're starting to kill yourself artistically.
- Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right…
- RULERS should be careful about what songs are allowed to be sung.
- I'd really rather put songs on people's lips than in their ears.
- I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes…
- Honest songs aren`t written for money.
- Now somebody will ask me, Pete, how can you prove these songs really make a difference? And I have to confess I can't prove a…
- Song, songs kept them going and going; They didn't realize the millions of seeds they were sowing. They were singing in marches, even singing in…
- Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.
- Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.
- I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the…
- A good song reminds us what we're fighting for.
More Song Quotes
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill… — Margaret Atwood
- You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song. — Sai Baba
- Every single band in the world has these gigantic songs that people are obsessed with. — Sebastian Bach
- I don't understand the mentality of a rock fan, being obsessed with two or three songs from 25 years ago. I'm not… — Sebastian Bach
- A lot of people when they try to sing Skid Row songs, they're screaming and yelling too much. It's more singing than… — Sebastian Bach
- To think that when they come out with these gigantic songs, it's pretty tough to top them, you know. — Sebastian Bach
- My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies. — Randy Bachman
- I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog. — Erykah Badu
- A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime. — Bryan Adams