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 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'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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They're hard to come by, good producers.
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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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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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Everyone makes mistakes.
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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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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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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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Unfortunately, the music programs are being stripped out of the schools these days. We have to change that.
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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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Most of our great influences were male rockers, like Led Zeppelin.
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I love singing, and whenever I can sing some more vocal leads, I always covet the chance.
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I know, in so many cases, a lot of the women who came up through the singer-songwriter, Lilith Fair era, the earlier Lilith Fair era, did say that we were influences on them.
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'Say Hello' was inspired by optimism.
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Harmony singing is my favorite thing to do in music!
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My highest score karaoke song is 'Ben,' by Michael Jackson.
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I've been through a lot of heartache in my day, and you turn to music to prop yourself up. It's a healing thing, and it's a powerful, powerful, beautiful thing.
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I have a Gibson Thinline that I designed the body shape of, which I used a lot on the 'Fanatic' album that I'm going to shake out.
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A lot of times, women are pigeonholed.
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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.