Lita Ford Quotes

They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.

Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter or poet or engineer or whatever, they don't understand that our skills are many simultaneously and men's skills are single.

I don't hate being compared with female musicians. I don't mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between women's work.

There have always been female artists and singers putting bands together all the time. But we were not always getting credit for that because we didn't know any better.

Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.

Coming up as a female rapper - well, a female artist in general - everything is just so black and white.

We were the first all-girl band that wrote and played our own stuff. You know, the odds were really against us because rock has traditionally been dominated by men.

I'm the benefactor of people who are doing so much hard work championing women composers.

I'd like to be able to get more girls to play guitar. I think with a girl playing electric guitar, sometimes it's seen a bit like a guy doing ballet. All the people I learned guitar from have been guys. There are some great female players, like Bonnie Raitt and Jennifer Batten, but very few.

At the Grammys, how many performances were with women playing instruments? Is it still surprising that a female can play an instrument proficiently?

It's very tough to give advice because it's tough out there for everybody but for a girl it's even tougher, because I don't think the glass ceiling has changed at all in the past 30 years. Otherwise the radio would be covered with girl bands, or girls in bands, so I don't think much has changed on that level. But I think that bands can still have a lot of success trying to go another route.

Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.

I kicked the door open, and I'm gonna hold my leg in there. I'm keeping the door open for all these amazing female singer-songwriters that are coming out.

I think female drummers are great. I think there should more of them.

I used to not like being called a 'woman architect': I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. Guys used to tap me on the head and say, 'You are okay for a girl.' But I see the incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it could be done, so I don't mind that at all.

Fortunately, we have a lot of really smart women in the business.

The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

Every day, women move mountains. It is an insult to have an international women's day.

It's a sad day when a woman being funny and interested in science is considered newsworthy.

There is a thing about women, in particular, being endlessly grateful for the opportunities in life, rather than saying, 'I'm here because I'm good.'

The Big Machine Label Group will continue to knock down doors to break female talent.

Most of my favourite artists are women.

Especially with women in music there is this unnecessary competitive element. And, like, why? Why do people do things where they try to put peers up against each other?