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Quotes from How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seeger — Pete Seeger

1919–2014 United States

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The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.

How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seeger (1981)

If singing were all that serious, frowning would make you sound better.

How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seeger (1981)

A productive mistake is: (1) made in the service of mission and vision; (2) acknowledged as a mistake; (3) learned from; (4) considered valuable; (5) shared for the benefit of all.

How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seeger (1981)

At the audition, your assignment is to find something new in the song. Something you've never noticed before. A breath carried over, a thought that ties the whole thing together. Then take the risk and do it.

How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seeger (1981)

Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.

How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seeger (1981)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Pete Seeger (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.