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Quotes About Music

Don't get me wrong, I've seen some very excellent women musicians.
~ Lita Ford
The women all want to dance. I dance all night every night.
~ Rudolf Wanderone
I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.
~ Brenda Lee
The music industry is a vicious business. It chews women up and spits them out.
~ Tori Amos
I got married about three years ago again to a wonderful German woman. Her name is Monika and she is beautiful. She is one of the biggest women Zappa fans I have ever met in my life.
~ Jimmy Carl Black
The Runaways' audience was 90 percent male. That was kind of depressing...Why don't women-our own gender-come out and support us?
~ Joan Jett
I know how to make other women look beautiful: from hair to makeup to wardrobe. So, I feel that I have a gift with imaging, and that's kind of fundamental to the music video process.
~ Nia Long
As long as music of mine is not used to preach hate, or to bash women, it's okay for me. If it doesn't promote violence against women, drugs, this and that, use it, go ahead.
~ Angelique Kidjo
I don't think there's any pop music directed at the peculiar class of anger that I know women of my age feel.
~ Victoria Williams
I just being able to write songs I'm proud of and finding some women to play with is exciting.
~ Dee Dee Ramone
I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.
~ Dorothy Fields
Say what you will about Gypsy women, but they are remarkable assessors of blues guitar talent.
~ Gary Gulman
... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those up to a certain point, women should; but in a light way, you know.
~ George Eliot
We recognize the universal power of music to touch the hearts of men and women everywhere and in all generations-to inspire and encourage, to sustain and lift, to comfort and bring peace.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
I don't think I picked up the guitar in the first place as a way of getting women. There are probably better ways of doing it.
~ James Blunt
To be on stage, to be sharing a stage with Lauryn Hill, Grace Jones, SZA, Kelis, and all these incredible women, I'm like 'When did this happen?'
~ Jillian Hervey
All the women in the world want a phony rock star who plays guitar.
~ John Mellencamp
I always thought the women of song don't get along, and I don't know why that is.
~ Joni Mitchell
I feel like women, especially in music, aren't really given as much respect as men. Sexism really exists.
~ Kate Nash
What I've heard from younger women and women my age is that the albums changed their lives or it was the first time they had heard feminism that they could relate to. So that's great.
~ Kathleen Hanna
When I first started out I actually was trying to use music to promote feminist ideas and at certain points, anti-violence against women and girls-type causes I was involved in.
~ Kathleen Hanna
My mom was in a punk rock band called The Trash Women and they toured and all of that. She had me when she was 17.
~ Kreayshawn
Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women
~ Kristin Hersh
I would go to radio stations and they were supposed to be interviewing me and playing my record and they would say, We're playing too many women right now, we can't play your record.
~ Kristin Hersh