Nancy Wilson Quotes
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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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The Lovemongers came together because we felt kind of overinflated by the end of the Eighties.
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I really like the Budda head with a big Orange cabinet with Celestion 30 speakers and my '63 Fender Telecaster.
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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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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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Being taken seriously was always the biggest challenge.
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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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'Say Hello' was inspired by optimism.
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I really love singing. I love singing harmony, mostly.
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A lot of times, women are pigeonholed.
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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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Unfortunately, the music programs are being stripped out of the schools these days. We have to change that.
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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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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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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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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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When you're 12, you have no gauge for what's hip or not hip - or even who you are.
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Heart is fun for the whole family!
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Being mothers, we try to stay home as much as possible and attend to the children.
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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 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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I feel like I've had a lot of painful situations that I intentionally delete from my memory.
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Ever since I could remember, women's issues have been pretty urgent.
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With 'Brigade,' we sort of decided to kind of revamp ourselves and put on the military garb and become more of a fighting unit, you know, like the title of the album, and sort of fight for it.