Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by June Millington

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer June Millington.
Last updated on December 18, 2024.
June Millington

June Millington is a Filipina-American guitarist, songwriter, producer, educator, and actress. She was the co-founder and lead guitarist of the all-female rock band Fanny, which was active from 1970 to 1974. Millington has been called "a godmother of women's music", and the co-founder and artistic director of the Institute for the Musical Arts (IMA) in Goshen, Massachusetts.

If you can give people happiness, you're in their hearts. Now you can just start having conversations with people that you would not have had under other circumstances.
Happiness is just a great equalizer. It's like water. You pour happiness liberally and all sorts of great things are going to happen.
I came from the Philippines and Filipinos are incredibly musical. I mean the best cover bands in the world come from Manila! — © June Millington
I came from the Philippines and Filipinos are incredibly musical. I mean the best cover bands in the world come from Manila!
I have this theory that people are actually really hungry for sonic space and understanding words, and I think that people are ready to look back and actually appreciate some of what came before. And then you really do have the entire movement that I'm just going to call feminist, because I am a feminist. I think the education of young girls and women about what came before has started and I think that the knowledge of Fanny is part of that.
I don't think I came to music. I think music came to me - or was already embedded when I came into this sphere, this realm, this Earth.
We had to be our own mothers of invention, in many senses of the word.
You can't have an all-girl band! They'll get pregnant, and they'll never stay together.
Music saved my life. I mean, music is life. It is everything to me. It's why I can meet people - I was so shy as a kid, and when I started to write songs and perform them with my sister in front of the public, people started to talk to me, and that made me feel really good. Everything about it has always been positive.
There was a lot of camaraderie among the bands. I remember a lot of times when I'd be driving up Laurel Canyon and pass by the house where Frank Zappa was living and I'd just see people out on the porch playing guitars.
I rented a summer home in the winter on Long Island, I took long walks, and then I ended up moving to Woodstock. It was a fertile musical area and time, and I played with a lot of different musicians there, including getting into women's music, and I ended up playing with Cris Williamson.
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