Julien Baker Quotes

Women's music is underrepresented.

I do like to look at female drummers, because I am one.

I think if you're a lady playing a guitar, other ladies need to see you playing the guitar, and they don't need to see men come out and fix your equipment for you. It just looks incredibly pussy. So I just do it all myself.

They said I was a married mother of two but the record sounded like an indie album and they didn't know how to market it! This country is incredibly sexist, as is the music and media industry.

The more powerful you become, some people especially don't like it that you're a woman. I stick up for myself.

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.

There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That's their problem. It's not mine.

When I got into the music business in 1976, there weren't many women on the roster. As a woman, you don't complain; you work twice as hard, and you do your job.

Nobody taught me to play bottleneck. I just saw it and taught myself. I got an old bottle and steamed the label off, put it on the wrong finger, I basically did everything wrong until I met some of the Blues legends early in my career who taught me another way. I didn't have anyone to tell me women didn't play bottleneck.

When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.

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.

It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'

We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it, that's it.

It's very hard for a woman in comedy. It's hard for women to be bold and not care what anyone, particularly men, think. Maybe that is why so many women comics are lesbians.

Being a woman in music and having kids, it's very hard to do both without neglecting one a bit.

Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.

Women in music have always been associated with pop - with prettiness, theatricality, melodic hooks and dance beats.

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.

If you're a man and you are confident and you are ambitious and strong, then you are a statesman and a leader. If you are a woman and you have those qualities, well, they have a not-so-flattering term for that.

In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

Oh, man, I love the Staple Singers. I love Pop Staples' guitar playing, too. He's one of my favorite guitar players.

I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.

I'm not a girl who started getting into music and using my femininity to get attention. When I was getting into it, it was all pure skill.

There are so many times that, as a woman in the music industry, you're asked questions no male musician would ever be asked.

People forget the punk thing was really good for women. It motivated them to pick up a guitar rather than be a chanteuse. It allowed us to be aggressive.