Kate Pierson Quotes

Nobody asks me about what male musicians I think about; I only ever get asked about females.

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

I don't know if comedy is a male sport. I always wondered that.

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

People make such a big deal about how people in bands look, especially if you're a girl.

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.

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.

Music is a male-dominated field.

For a female artist, it takes a lot more to be taken seriously if you're not sat down at a piano or with a guitar, you know?

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

Why is it when a woman makes a film or a movie stars a female cast it is labeled women-centric because it is not white, male and middle-class men?

You have to work hard as a woman for people to take you seriously.

At first, being girls got us a lot of attention. But no one would take us seriously.

I always think that people think that women in music are always angry. I'm not angry. Rock 'n' roll music made by men is so much more over-the-top aggressive than when a women says "you" and they're screaming it, it's like, 'Oh my God!' I'm like, 'Have you heard rock music made by men?'

That was exactly why people didn't want to give us any kind of life, because we were threatening their status quo, and they just didn't want to have room for girls playing rock 'n' roll. It bothered them. First, people just tried to get around it by saying, "Oh, wow, isn't that cute? Girls playing rock 'n' roll!," and when we said, "Yeah, right, this isn't a phase; it's what we want to do with our lives," it became, "Oh! You must be a bunch of sluts. You dykes, you whores." That's what it became. Then it became a name-calling contest.

I immediately noticed there were far more male characters than female characters in the programs, even now, in the 21st century.

I dabble in the jazz world, which is male-­dominated. If you had two women playing together, it became a shtick. It becomes a "girl group," and it has to be something cutesy. That's hard to contend with.

Guys pit female rappers against each other because female rappers - if you haven't noticed of late - are a lot more interesting than guys.

Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women.

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

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

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

Women's music is underrepresented.

Saying women aren't funny is now like saying Asians can't drive or saying black people have bad credit. It's just really, like, so obsolete.

Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: 'What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?'