Quotes About Music

I do better singing female songs because my voice is so high-pitched.

I do like to look at female drummers, because I am one.

I have a lot of female fans.

I think female drummers are great. I think there should more of them.

It's interesting that a lot of female artists want to collaborate with me.

Jhene Aiko, I like Zara Larsson, I like working with female artists.

I was lucky to grow up in the '90s, when we had just as many strong female artists as male artists. That's a world I would like to live in again.

If you look at the charts, there's not a lot of male artists and for whatever reason, female artists sell a lot more records and get played a lot more on the radio.

In music today, people are against females. We don't have that empowerment anymore. We don't have that voice.

There's Kelsea Ballerini, myself... Lauren Alaina, Raelynn, and there's been this influx of really amazing artists who happen to be women. I think I'm not really attached to the females in country conversation as much anymore, but I think, you know, we're here to stay, and we've always been here, and we've always been good.

I did play the guitar and sing; I was in a band called The Estrogens: three females and one very brave guy.

Maybe it's the feminine side of me, but I like that AM radio pop.

I feel like as a teenager making music, I had a lot of internalised misogyny, a need to be one of the boys, and a lot of self-hatred. As I discovered what feminism is and what it meant to me, it definitely took a hold of my life in a big way.

The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender.

In early '57, I bought a Fender Telecaster.

I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.

My one experience with Lollapalooza was in 2009 - it was actually the first music festival I've ever been to.

Playing a room, it's a real dictator-type situation - you can really move the crowd the way you want to. In a festival, there's a sea of people, and it's harder to lock in on any one group.

When I started out, I wanted to be the kind of artist who could play the CMA Music Festival and then turn around and play Bonnaroo, and I've managed to do both.

I'm a huge festival fan. I love to dance and dance all night long.

At Coachella, I want to start separating how I do a big festival set from how I do a club set.

I don't ever want to play a festival again, period.

I was four days old when I went to my first bluegrass festival.

I got heckled off stage in Western Australia at a music festival once.