“It's hard to come back from the Balkans and not sound like a Pete Seeger song.”

“From "Beware of the Beautiful Stranger". title song of 1970 album, sung by Pete Atkin.”

Clive James (1939–2019) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist

“And it's the same sad song coming back again. The same old song, flows back again. ~ "So Much Work"”

Pete Yorn (1974) American musician

“You both… you both saved me?"

"Come on," said Luis. "You make it sound like it was hard for Val to go to the Unseelie Court, strike a deal with Roiben, challenge Mabry to a duel, win back your heart, and then get back here during rush hour.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

“I can't play [guitar] like Pete Townshend. The flip side of that is that Pete Townshend could probably never have played like me.”

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

“"This sounds like the soundtrack of a coma." (On U2's song One Step Closer)”

Maddox (1978) American internet writer

“The musical note is the language of intelligence. Intelligence speaks wherever there is poetry, music and song. Colour is part of it. We love colours because we come from colour. Colour and sound.”

J. Posadas (1912–1981) Argentine Trotskyist (1912-1981)

“echo, the death of a sound that had nowhere to go but to come back.”

Janet Fitch (1955) American writer

“Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.”

Louise Erdrich book The Master Butchers Singing Club

“Today the mockingbird does not sound very happy. It sounds if it is coming apart. As of the very heart of itself-its song-is breaking into pieces and flying off in a hundred directions.”

Jerry Spinelli book Love, Stargirl