Nancy Wilson Quotes

We had the idea as women that we could walk into music and be good at it and be as good as any man and have a career in it without being taken advantage of. So basically, those things came true. The obstacle course was just more difficult than we ever anticipated. We were optimistic and very naive.

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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.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Direction
  • Ways
  • Hormones

• 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.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Notorious
  • Namesake
  • Living up

• 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.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Heart
  • Sound
  • Girls

• I don't think anyone does Rush songs except for Rush.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Songs
  • Rush

• The Seattle explosion was what saved rock from becoming too pompous! A great moment in music!

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Rock
  • Explosion
  • Seattle

• I think there were a couple really good songs on 'Whirlygig.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Songs
  • Whirlygig

• 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.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Adjust

• They're hard to come by, good producers.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Good
  • Producers

• 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.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Chance
  • Got

• 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.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Heart
  • Protest
  • Draft

• Harmony singing is my favorite thing to do in music!

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Music
  • Singing
  • Harmony

• 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.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Player
  • Singer
  • Acoustic Guitar

• Everyone makes mistakes.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Mistakes

• 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.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • People
  • Music
  • Lives

• I'm a chameleon when it comes to guitar playing and like to stretch out into different territories.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Stretch
  • Chameleon
  • Territories

• 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.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Music
  • Free
  • Play

• 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.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Dream
  • Songs
  • Artists

• Most of our great influences were male rockers, like Led Zeppelin.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Influences
  • MAle
  • Led Zeppelin

• 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.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Zeppelin
  • Mind-expanding
  • Tolkienesque

• 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.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Music
  • Day
  • Heartache

• I love singing, and whenever I can sing some more vocal leads, I always covet the chance.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Singing
  • Chance
  • Vocal

• 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.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • People
  • Play
  • Rock

• 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.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Women
  • Singer-songwriter
  • Came Up

• I'll work my butt off to do something well.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Work
  • Butt off