Jain Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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 was seeing on the ground floor that labels weren't investing in females, and it trickled upward because I was in radio with none to play. I know that I can't change today, but what I can do is work on the culture for tomorrow.

We still have so far to go as a country. People don't like to listen to women or take orders from them. I feel that a lot as a woman playing music.

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.

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.

In music today, people are against females. We don't have that empowerment anymore. We don't have that voice.

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

The representation of women in hip-hop has long been so flagrantly unkind.

I know for a fact I've put in the same amount of hours as every up-and-coming male rapper right now, if not more. I'm a feminist with regard to my music and the music industry.

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

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

I think the media's a little frightened of women.

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

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

When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.

Misogyny not only for Joyce Banda but for women.

I'm all about empowering women. And by lining them up against the wall and weighing them, surely you are making them feel more like meat than ever - even if it's little meat, if you know what I mean.

Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chosen not to support a more provocative voice from women, which I find disappointing.

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

There's something advantageous about being a woman in rock versus, say, a woman in chemistry or construction. There's definitely a built-in sexism across the board, but I think you're afforded a degree of freedom in rock because, historically, the rules have been flexible.

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.

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