Heart Quotes
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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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'Say Hello' was inspired by optimism.
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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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My highest score karaoke song is 'Ben,' by Michael Jackson.
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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 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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The Lovemongers came together because we felt kind of overinflated by the end of the Eighties.
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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 what constitutes rock nowadays is people that actually play and sing. They can do the job live with no ProTools or embellishments or other recorded material.
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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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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 like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now.
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Music became less understandable in the wake of the new MTV era. You weren't supposed to be anything other than a pop star, to not go deeper than that. It was really strange. It was suffocating, image-wise. What you could talk about in a song changed; if you were misunderstood, you were really misunderstood - taken literally.
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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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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 care a lot about Heart; I was there at the inception of Heart.
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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 really like the Budda head with a big Orange cabinet with Celestion 30 speakers and my '63 Fender Telecaster.
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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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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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If you're in a rock band, you're never too tame.