Heart Quotes
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The '80s was an interesting, confining time for songwriters, so we were just sort of riffing in our own language, off to the side.
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Music changes kids, and kids change the world.
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Being mothers, we try to stay home as much as possible and attend to the children.
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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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When you're 12, you have no gauge for what's hip or not hip - or even who you are.
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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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I think the theme of the album probably was just that it was our first record.
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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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Heart is fun for the whole family!
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Just being out in the world, you see so many things, and every day, you experience so many concepts and different people and their coolness and weirdness. It's a feast of ideas.
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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've always been a little bit in the background as a singer and even as an acoustic-guitar player, although I crank it up and rock with my Marshall stacks, too.
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There's nothing quite as raw and honest as one person and one instrument.
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Ever since I could remember, women's issues have been pretty urgent.
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I feel like I've had a lot of painful situations that I intentionally delete from my memory.
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I like playing. Guitar... on a loud rock stage... with colored lights. Everything sounds better with colored lights!
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I saw Led Zeppelin live for the first time when I was thirteen.
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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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It's one thing to look at someone like Beyonce and Rihanna and to see how beloved and talented they are, and it's another thing to live inside it.
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Bands are always told, 'Nobody wants to hear your new stuff - just stick with the meat and potatoes - that's what people come for.' That's only half-true. I know if I went to see U2, I would be thrilled if they did 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For,' but I'm equally as thrilled to hear their new stuff.
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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 really feel that a concert is a place where you can bring up topics, and you can actually discuss them and feel them and have a great time.
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It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the '70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the '70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour.
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My favorite acoustic is the Nancy Wilson Signature Martin.