Quotes by Women Musicians

Joni Mitchell

Queen Latifah

Lisa Gerrard

Annie Lennox

Laurie Anderson

Sheryl Crow

Nico

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

Nadia Boulanger

All of nature talks to me - if I could just figure out what it's saying - trees are swinging in the breeze. They're talking to me. Insects are rubbing their legs together. They're all talking. They're talking to me.

Laurie Anderson

Whoever said money can't buy happiness wasn't spending it helping people who needed it.

No country can cease to exist. The stones don't walk.

Because there's just so much in a day now, I keep writing in much more abstract terms, like I don't try to write about what happened anymore. It would be impossible.

That's the story that went around,
But here's the real low-down:
Put the blame on Mame, boys,
Put the blame on Mame.

Riding on anything
Anything's good enough
Who would've thought it of someone like you

Justine Frischmann

People have always had these weird things about how you have to be really good looking to be a singer. I mean, it's not like Stevie Nicks or Linda Ronstadt were dogs. It's not like this is some new thing. But there was at one point a larger variety, but now the catchphrase is "the whole package," the "American Idol" reality that you're a model first and a singer second.

This documentary has lifted the lid off a coffin, and now I'm looking at stuff that I didn't know was there.

Sophie B. Hawkins

Let your inner queen's voice come through loud and clear. Be strong, be authentic, be you, and you'll do her proud.

I've played Bach since I was a little girl. I can't let a day go by without playing him. He's so witty and secretive and funny and mathematical and brilliant.

Joanna MacGregor

To be a catalyst is one of my life's objectives. I've been inspired by many people who in turn have been catalysts. It's very interesting to see the waves of interest come and go in Celtic territory. If I can be a catalyst for other people, that's wonderful.

Loreena McKennitt

I love musical theatre and my dream is to do Once On This Island.

I live in a box of paints
I'm frightened by the devil
And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid

Better lo'ed ye canna be,
Will ye no come back again?

Carolina, Baroness Nairne

I may have changed, it's hard to gauge
Time won't account for how I've aged
Would that I could tie your lying tongue
Who says that leaving keeps you young.

You will never see these lights
Glowing in your nights
If you don't know
And there are roses growing in the snow.

When you're an artist, nobody ever tells you or hits you with the magic wand of legitimacy. You have to hit your own head with your own handmade wand. And you feel stupid doing it.

Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls.

Elizabeth Prentiss

We are able to speak for ourselves through our music rather than being defined and put into the spotlight in a very male kind of groomed way for an obviously predominantly male audience.

Shingai Shoniwa

When I was between the ages of five and nine, the soldiers of the Second World War wanted to have Betty Grable, but I wanted to be Betty Grable. She was the epitome of an alluring woman; she had it all as far as I was concerned.

I like New York better than Seattle. It's bigger. I was really sad when I left, because I miss my friends, but I call them almost every day, and I have friends here now.

Rachel Trachtenburg

Actually I don't. I've never played with a bass player before, so I wouldn't even know. It wouldn't feel like it's missing, I just think it's normal … I prefer it that way so I only have to concentrate on Jack.

It had to go all the way out to the west coast and come all the way back to the east coast every time it needed to be fixed.

Music is a Place to take Refuge. It's a Sanctuary from Mediocrity and Boredom. It's Innocent and it's a Place you can loose yourself in Thoughts, Memories and Intricacies..