Heart Quotes
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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 love singing, and whenever I can sing some more vocal leads, I always covet the chance.
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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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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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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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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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Being taken seriously was always the biggest challenge.
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I'll work my butt off to do something well.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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It's the ultimate compliment to be imitated or at least be somebody's influence, for sure.
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I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now.
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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.