Nancy Wilson 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.

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.

To me, it's exciting that women are dominating the pop charts.

Most of my favorite artists are strong females.

I'm just really inspired by women and, for me, it's really important to work with someone who can relate to the female experience, especially in music.

I listened to a lot of female pop music growing up. I started to realize that there were women out there wanting to stay something, playing instruments and writing their own songs.

Women's music is underrepresented.

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 like Kelela. I like Twigs. I love the more old school; I hate to say old school, but I love Peaches; I love Peaches, I love Cat Power. And there's constantly new things coming up. But there's something so beautifully powerful - for me being a woman, when there's a woman doing something, it really strikes a chord.

I don't feel there are enough women artists out there who are saying anything of tremendous relevance.

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.

I'm just glad that there's some diversity in the music industry with women so people know that you can be literally anything and still be able to make it.

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.

Most of my favourite artists are women.

We opened the door for women rappers.

For us, gender didn't come up. We were friends who happened to play together. We never said, 'Gee, we're an all-girl band!'

I think it's hard when you're a woman because the music industry is way more masculine than feminine, so you have to make your own space and fight for it.

It never really occurred to me to seek out a female influence, a female musician.

Lauryn Hill inspired me so much. She had that whole women's empowerment vibe in all of her songs back when that didn't even exist.

A lot of times when I play a show, I'm the only girl on the bill. We're a minority, for sure.

There's a strong wave of songs by women. Even if the songs are collabs, women have the intro and the chorus, which is what people can sing. We're getting the credibility, the spaces in the award shows, and people want to hear our point of view.

I've always been very respected as a female singer in metal, or in general as a female singer.

I was lucky to grow up in the '90s, when we had just as many strong female artists as male artists. That's a world I would like to live in again.

I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population - and gave birth to the whole world. Without them writing and being directors, the rest of us are not going to know the whole story.

To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.