Nancy Wilson Quotes
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Heart is fun for the whole family!
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Music changes kids, and kids change the world.
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Ever since I could remember, women's issues have been pretty urgent.
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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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I saw Led Zeppelin live for the first time when I was thirteen.
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We're trying to elevate humanity and not preach to humanity in the way we approach our art. We're always just trying to get a good party going.
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There's nothing quite as raw and honest as one person and one instrument.
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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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I like playing. Guitar... on a loud rock stage... with colored lights. Everything sounds better with colored lights!
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I play a lot of classical music around the house.
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We always had a lot of admiration for feminists who were out there trying to change things for the better for women, who were trying to find equality in the workplace and at home.
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My favorite acoustic is the Nancy Wilson Signature Martin.
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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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Ann and I were the main writers in Heart. We had the leadership role, and the guys in the band sometimes had a hard time with that.
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We don't really intentionally try to sound like ourselves. I think that would be overthinking.
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We see people from 6 to 60 years old at the shows.
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We really had boundless optimism about the place of music in the culture - and in the world.
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We struck out on our own in suburbia with parents who actually helped us get where we needed to go.
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There was a lot of procrastination on Cameron's part because of the personal nature of 'Almost Famous.' There was a lot of deep, dark doubt about even doing it. I don't mind being a cheerleader, but I did reach my limit quite a few times. I do my own writing, so I understand, but I was pushed to the point of anger with the insecurity of it.
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Sleazy people are always in this business. They run the business, pretty much. There are a lot of barracudas.
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We get notes sent to us backstage from college students that say, 'My parents used to play your albums all the time! I grew up with you, and I love the new stuff.
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We came from an era when women normally did not rock.
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We didn't want to be the girlfriends of the Beatles. We wanted to be the Beatles.
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We're not just 'ladies in rock.' We're weird people!