Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Nancy Wilson - Page 2

I have endless admiration for people like Chrissie Hynde who've been out as the only girl in a band. I'm not sure that, even as a little Marine Corps brat, I would've been able to deal with that.

Sleazy people are always in this business. They run the business, pretty much. There are a lot of barracudas.

It is nice to be an American and to be able to have an opinion.

There's nothing quite as raw and honest as one person and one instrument.

There were not very many girls in rock n' roll together with men that had a heavy rock sound as well as a more acoustic sound like Heart.

Being mothers, we try to stay home as much as possible and attend to the children.

With 'Brigade,' we sort of decided to kind of revamp ourselves and put on the military garb and become more of a fighting unit, you know, like the title of the album, and sort of fight for it.

Our very first group was called The Prunes.' We did a lot of campgrounds, living rooms, and backyards.

We've always been more... weird compared to most bands, girls or no.

Heart is fun for the whole family!

I always have dogs with me, even on the road. We call them port-o-pups.

We see what music can do for people. Hell, we see what music does for us! When you see thousands of people out in front of you, it's fixing their lives. It's helping. It's healing. It's bigger than the inconvenience of jealousy or emotional storm clouds.

We don't really intentionally try to sound like ourselves. I think that would be overthinking.

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.

I tried to play 'Barracuda' on 'Guitar Hero,' and because you have to anticipate and push buttons, it's really counterintuitive.

People started to ask me, 'Do you really play guitar?' They thought it was a prop. It was just interesting, because of all the imaging stuff.

A lot of times, women are pigeonholed.

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.

In many ways, we might compare to The Pretenders more than others, but still, we created our own category.

The Seattle explosion was what saved rock from becoming too pompous! A great moment in music!

Being taken seriously was always the biggest challenge.

When we're home, we like to cook and be together and do mom things when we can.

In our band, we had such an interesting democracy, and it worked really well.

A dream set would include songs by other artists like Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, and other favorites. More obscure Heart songs like 'Wait For an Answer' and 'Nada One' would be fun, plus fan favorites like 'Love Mistake' and 'Language of Love.' Endless possibilities.

The '80s was an interesting, confining time for songwriters, so we were just sort of riffing in our own language, off to the side.

My favorite acoustic is the Nancy Wilson Signature Martin.

I love singing, and whenever I can sing some more vocal leads, I always covet the chance.

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.

As a songwriter, simplicity - what not to do, what not to play - can be the hardest thing to achieve.

Harmony singing is my favorite thing to do in music!

We're trying to elevate humanity and not preach to humanity in the way we approach our art. We're always just trying to get a good party going.

I play a lot of classical music around the house.

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!

We struck out on our own in suburbia with parents who actually helped us get where we needed to go.

When you're 12, you have no gauge for what's hip or not hip - or even who you are.

Ann and I were the main writers in Heart. We had the leadership role, and the guys in the band sometimes had a hard time with that.

'Say Hello' was inspired by optimism.

We were wild-eyed hippies from the late '60s. We still had the exuberance of the mind-expanding '60s - that Tolkienesque, Zeppelin, androgynous, wood nymph, forest fairy kind of innocence. It sounds stupid now, but we felt we were changing the world with music.

Most of our great influences were male rockers, like Led Zeppelin.

We always had a lot of admiration for feminists who were out there trying to change things for the better for women, who were trying to find equality in the workplace and at home.