Nancy Wilson Quotes
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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'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 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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Being taken seriously was always the biggest challenge.
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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 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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'Say Hello' was inspired by optimism.
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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 have done a few solo projects that I really enjoyed and would love to have time to do more. Key word here is time!
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I really love singing. I love singing harmony, mostly.
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There is a definite sound with all-girl bands, a good rudimentary sound, and that's what's cool and punk about all-girl bands that you still find, largely - it's really kind of primal.
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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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We've never been as active politically as we have been as artists. But politics always brush up against the arts, oh, about every four years in this country.
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I think it's important to be kind of brutally honest without making anyone else feel bad in any way, if possible.
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Our mom was a super strident, capable, and strong individual. I think because she was a military wife in the Marine Corps, she had to push back the things that she believed, and she had to really scrape and fight to have her space.
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A lot of times, women are pigeonholed.
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I was always so jealous of a band like Fleetwood Mac, for instance, where Christine McVie would sing a whole bunch of songs even though Stevie was the obvious lead singer. It added variety to their shows.
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One of the signature things about Heart was the acoustic guitar in a rock format, which you didn't hear that often.
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There have never been a lot of female guitarists out there, so most of my influences were male. Acoustically, I followed Joni Mitchell and Paul Simon. Also, John Lennon and Paul McCartney - both incredible acoustic guitar players.
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I have a favorite blue Telecaster. It's an old '60-something, which I play at every show. That's probably my favorite all-around stage guitar.
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When you're 12, you have no gauge for what's hip or not hip - or even who you are.
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There are some beautiful things about people like Katy Perry, who are bold enough to go up on a pink cotton-candy cloud, with a guitar, in a tutu, and sing all by herself.
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Heart is fun for the whole family!
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It's the ultimate compliment to be imitated or at least be somebody's influence, for sure.