Orianthi Quotes

It's a guy thing, playing the guitar. Being a female and trying to go to the same auditions as the guys, it's pretty hard.

I didn't think I could play in a band. It just wasn't an option - all band members were men, and bandleaders were men.

I need that aggressive attitude to play my music and more men have that attitude than women.

Our discomfort with female leadership runs deep. We call little girls bossy. We never really call little boys bossy, because a boy is expected to lead, so it doesn't surprise or offend.

When I tried to get a record deal, only one label wanted me. The rest said 'oh, we've already got a girl with a guitar.' Can you imagine them ever saying that to a guy?

I thought that I wouldn't be able to make it because I'm a girl, but I think it was just a subconscious feeling. Pretty much every gig I went to was a band with four dudes.

When people say, "Oh, she plays like a dude," it's usually dudes who are the ones saying it. They're saying, "Oh, she's as good as us." Of course, that's a stupid statement.

I can't believe this, I'm arguing with a woman!

It's really funny if two women stand on the House floor. There are usually at least two men who go by and say, 'What is this, a coup?' They're almost afraid to see us in public together.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

I understand I'm supposed to be feminine and dainty, but I'm not. There are two sides to the coin. People are more impressed with things that I do because they almost treat you as if you're handicapped if you're a woman... people can be impressed that I can play a few chords on the guitar.

A man who cooks is very sexy. A woman who cooks is not that sexy. Because it's associated in our mind to the domestic cliche of the woman.

I'm quite a chauvinistic person.

If you've attended the Cordon Bleu, you would know that no woman is supposed to be a chef - only men.

If you're funny as a woman, people think it might be because someone else helped you.

I just liked music, and I really liked rock guitar. I didn't think I was going to be a rock guitar player, because I was a girl. I would've been too shy to play with guys.

That's the trouble with the women's game. Those women think they're men, and they go off hitting all over the place. They'd be better off if they'd played like women.

You know, I try not to think too much about women guitarists versus men guitarists; the world does that for me.

I don't really find it to be a man-dominated industry. I mean, I guess when you look at it, it is, but I don't really look at it as a female or male thing, or female or male guitar players or whatever.

I think people see me, and they can't get past my looks or the fact that a girl can be serious about playing the guitar.

I feel like in our society there is definitely still a lot of underlying sexism. It's funny how many guys are surprised when you pick up an instrument in the studio, or write your own songs.

It's ingrained in people's minds that it's a typecast and a stereotype that women are just emotional and crazy.

There's an ingrained mentality in our culture that women aren't as good. Other places, it doesn't exist.

Everywhere I went, people would tell me that trap and reggaeton was for men, not women. I wasn't being taken seriously, and I was often being told to do something else.