Nancy Wilson Quotes
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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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'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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The Lovemongers came together because we felt kind of overinflated by the end of the Eighties.
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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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I'll work my butt off to do something well.
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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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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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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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A lot of times, women are pigeonholed.
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I really love singing. I love singing harmony, mostly.
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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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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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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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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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The '80s was an interesting, confining time for songwriters, so we were just sort of riffing in our own language, off to the side.
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If you're in a rock band, you're never too tame.
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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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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.
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Being mothers, we try to stay home as much as possible and attend to the children.
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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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When you're 12, you have no gauge for what's hip or not hip - or even who you are.
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It's the ultimate compliment to be imitated or at least be somebody's influence, for sure.