Nancy Wilson Quotes
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When you're in your twenties, your brain hasn't even finished baking, and your hormones are giving you all kinds of direction of which ways to go.
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We're notorious for living up to our namesake. We're all about love. That's how we roll, even when it's to a fault.
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I think there were a couple really good songs on 'Whirlygig.
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There were not very many girls in rock n' roll together with men that had a heavy rock sound as well as a more acoustic sound like Heart.
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Harmony singing is my favorite thing to do in music!
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I don't think anyone does Rush songs except for Rush.
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The Seattle explosion was what saved rock from becoming too pompous! A great moment in music!
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We were wild-eyed hippies from the late '60s. We still had the exuberance of the mind-expanding '60s - that Tolkienesque, Zeppelin, androgynous, wood nymph, forest fairy kind of innocence. It sounds stupid now, but we felt we were changing the world with music.
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They're hard to come by, good producers.
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We see what music can do for people. Hell, we see what music does for us! When you see thousands of people out in front of you, it's fixing their lives. It's helping. It's healing. It's bigger than the inconvenience of jealousy or emotional storm clouds.
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Heart had originally relocated to Vancouver because Mike evaded the draft to protest the Vietnam war. We had to deal with a lot at that time - it was a tough period for the band.
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A dream set would include songs by other artists like Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, and other favorites. More obscure Heart songs like 'Wait For an Answer' and 'Nada One' would be fun, plus fan favorites like 'Love Mistake' and 'Language of Love.' Endless possibilities.
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We've been around for awhile, had a lot of success. Got a chance to sit around and go, 'Oh, yeah, we're pretty good.
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Everyone makes mistakes.
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I've always been a little bit in the background as a singer and even as an acoustic-guitar player, although I crank it up and rock with my Marshall stacks, too.
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The electric guitar was a big step for me, but I didn't spend a lot of time trying to adjust. It wasn't like, 'Hey, little lady, come strap on this here big guitar.' We took it in steps as much as possible.
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One of the things I've heard musicians say that's true is, 'I would play for free. I would play music forever, but you have to pay me to travel.' I know we're always going to make music. The traveling part - that is the most wear and tear on any human.
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Most of our great influences were male rockers, like Led Zeppelin.
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My highest score karaoke song is 'Ben,' by Michael Jackson.
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I'll work my butt off to do something well.
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I think what constitutes rock nowadays is people that actually play and sing. They can do the job live with no ProTools or embellishments or other recorded material.
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I'm a chameleon when it comes to guitar playing and like to stretch out into different territories.
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What Jimmy Page did was pretty inspiring for guitar players. He married a lot of acoustic elements into hard rock. The kind of chords he used were very left of center, with a lot of dissonance - I absorbed that like a sponge. It's all over the music I write, always.
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I love singing, and whenever I can sing some more vocal leads, I always covet the chance.