Ann Wilson Quotes
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Heart has always been a rock band. It's always been hard-rock.
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Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing.
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I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.
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I like the way remixes sound. Some of them are really creative.
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Led Zeppelin, you can't find a better band to pay homage to.
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We're not like Alice In Chains where somebody dies and the band breaks up.
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Fame put a lot of pressure on me in the Eighties and early Nineties - and I'm glad that I had the kind of makeup where I could come through it alive, keep myself in hand.
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You noticed from last night, we only did two from the 80s. And our set's two hours long.
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People talk about each other in the worst way, especially when you become a product for sale. You're just a thing.
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I think that idea of 'because I'm sexy, I'm a feminist' is kind of immature. But as long as women think being sexy is what makes them beautiful and powerful... then it will continue.
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We had always been a real band; Heart was never a construct.
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I don't think we'll ever use the same sound techniques.
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Some time ago, I learned how to say, 'What's the worst thing that could happen up there?' I could mess up some words, I could sing flat... I could appear human. Is that really the worst thing in the world?
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Back when I started, you could either be a folk singer, or you could be a disco diva, or you could be a secretary or maybe a disc jockey, but there was no room for anything alternative yet.
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I don't harbor any anti-male feeling in my heart.
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I don't think we ever clash but we do become frosty.
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When you become famous, people can have a powerful yet illusory idea of who you are. You want to live your life, but still, you don't want to let anyone down. I know Ed Vedder, Kurt Cobain, Jerry Cantrell, all those guys felt it. They're smart, real, and all of a sudden, they're put on a pedestal.
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You have to also provide a video for it, look a certain way and big hair... If you're a woman it's even more strange with fake fingernails and corsets and all this stuff that was big in the 80s.
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I trained myself by doing other people's songs in clubs way back when. And so I have no pride about doing covers. I love it. And being a song interpreter, to me, is just as important as, you know, putting your own thing out there. It's all about the soul - where the soul comes from.
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I would be on dates with guys, and the radio would be on, and if the Moody Blues song came on I couldn't concentrate on the guy; I would go straight into the music.
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We had a mother who could have been called a feminist. That's just how we were raised. Why do you have to go sulk off in some corner because you are a girl? What's the big deal?
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At that time a lot of young men didn't want to go to the war and kill. This guy that I fell in love with was one of those so he escaped to Canada and I followed him.
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Romantic love is just one aspect of love.
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I don't think we will use the 80s glossy sound again.