Heart Quotes
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My highest score karaoke song is 'Ben,' by Michael Jackson.
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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 love singing, and whenever I can sing some more vocal leads, I always covet the chance.
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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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It's a really bad idea to be in a band and get involved with each other.
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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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I really like the Budda head with a big Orange cabinet with Celestion 30 speakers and my '63 Fender Telecaster.
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Being taken seriously was always the biggest challenge.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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 really love singing. I love singing harmony, mostly.
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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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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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A lot of times, women are pigeonholed.
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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 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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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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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.