Lesley Gore Quotes

I feel liberated being around women who are liberated.

While out on the perimeter, women discovered the freedom of badlands. They were curiously free to invent, without having to liberate themselves from the forms and rewards of the cultural norm.

Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's more important to me than a laugh.

For the first time I'm free to be myself.

Each time I play a song it seems more real.

Women today have the keys to the doors which have been barred against them and they will open them without asking consent.

The key to good art is to make something that means something to you.

Women are such incredible people. We're so multifaceted, we're so interesting, and any opportunity to celebrate that - because there's been many years of not being able to - and expose what it's like to be female and how we can be whoever we want to be, and do whatever we want to do, is great.

Piano playing consists of common sense, heart and technical resources. All three should be equally developed. Without common sense you are a fiasco, without technique an amateur, without heart a machine. The profession does have its hazards.

It’s always about, somehow, finding a part of myself that is relevant, and then turning the volume up on that particular part. So, I am all of the characters I've ever played, and I am none of them at the same time.

My idea of a true feminist is a woman who feels free enough to do whatever she wants.

[Songs] have to be a part of you. They have to be in your DNA. That's how I approached it.

Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.

Keyboardists whose chief asset is mere technique . . . more often than not astound us with their prowess without ever touching our sensibilities. They overwhelm our hearing without satisfying it and stun the mind without moving it.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Sometimes I write music, sometimes I don't. I think I'm just writing more what's close to my heart, and musical stuff is close to my heart, and it's fun to write, and when something's fun to write you don't think about what statement you're trying to make or what genre you're trying to hone in on.

I feel like with music there's so much ego rooted in expressing your thoughts and your experiences with it.

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?

What I'm really interested in is freedom.

The magic girl licked the wet off her arms and looked over to me as if to say, See? You don't have to behave like them, you don't have to behave like anyone.

Women and girls can do whatever they want. There is no limit to what we as women can accomplish.

A lot of solos I hear sound so incredible, but they sound like somebody practicing. They sound a bit soulless - fiery, but at the same time, lacking in spirit and soul.

For me, singing was real life, not two plus two equals four.