Quotes by Women Musicians

Little girl, little boy,
with the cornrowed style
let me see your pretty face,
let me see your handsome smile.

Camille Yarbrough

Can't you tell when you're with someone who's listening? She hears you, really hears you. He hears the sadness in your tone or catches your joy. Be a listener, to music, to life, to others, to God. Life is noisy, but there is music in every heartbeat. God is waiting to bring joy and peace to the confusion of our days.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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'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

You just have to determine to settle for nothing less than being FULLY ALIVE, to show up, be who you are, and share your gifts.

For better or for worse, everything I recall is associated, one way or another, with the piano.

Ruth Slenczynska

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

Sometimes my feelings get so big that I just want to swim out into the darkness. Just jump off the end of the world. Sometimes I want to dig, right down to the bones of everything. Sometimes when you dig, you dig up stuff you might not want to find. But that's where the good stuff lies.

Cecil Castellucci

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.

Time clocks rob the world of wild possibility. That's what they're for.

Stephanie Mills

Cat, I'll let you in on a little secret. We don't all love our jobs every day. And doing something you have passion for doesn't make the work part of it any easier...It just makes you less likely to quit.

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

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.

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

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

On why prison and work songs are liberation songs:

You're walking down life's road, society's foot is on your throat, every which way you turn you can't get from under that foot. And you reach a fork in the road and you can either lie down and die, or insist upon your life.

The giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another.

From a distance, there is harmony
And it echoes through the land
It's the voice of hope, it's the voice of peace
It's the voice of every man.

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.

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

Justine Frischmann