Heart Quotes
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I'm a chameleon when it comes to guitar playing and like to stretch out into different territories.
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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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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 love singing, and whenever I can sing some more vocal leads, I always covet the chance.
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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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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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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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'Say Hello' was inspired by optimism.
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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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The Lovemongers came together because we felt kind of overinflated by the end of the Eighties.
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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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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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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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It's a really bad idea to be in a band and get involved with each other.
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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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I don't know if there is redemption for people like Charlie Rose or Garrison Keillor. An apology helps, but what really matter are deeds.
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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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I really love singing. I love singing harmony, mostly.
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A lot of times, women are pigeonholed.
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The original Heart logo was made back in the real early '70s by Mike Fisher, who I used to be in a relationship with. He was first our manager and then our soundman. When I met him, he was in design school for architecture, so he was always drawing.
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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 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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Being mothers, we try to stay home as much as possible and attend to the children.