Victoria Legrand Quotes

Being a female guitar player back in school wasn't great, and I had to change schools so many times. The male drummers and bass players thought it was cool, but male guitar players said, 'It's a guy's thing. You should be doing something else, like playing the harp.'

It's a guy thing, playing the guitar. Being a female and trying to go to the same auditions as the guys, it's pretty hard.

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

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.

When I tried to get a record deal, only one label wanted me. The rest said 'oh, we've already got a girl with a guitar.' Can you imagine them ever saying that to a guy?

I didn't think I could play in a band. It just wasn't an option - all band members were men, and bandleaders were men.

Yeah, of course, there's always gonna be people with their own opinions about a female in rock music and men in rock music, but at the end of the day, it's just about being a good musician.

One of the things I haven't been ready for is how male-dominated the music industry is. I just didn't have a clue.

Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.

I think that, by and large, the predominant voice we hear in rock music is a white male voice.

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.

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.

Nobody would take me seriously. They would take one look at me and say, 'O.K., folk singer.' That was really hard for me, and I was angry a lot of the time. I did all these summer programs, and I never encountered another female playing jazz guitar. Ever.

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

Men have no idea how much more difficult it is for women in the rock and roll industry, and while we are trying to give birth, breastfeed, all they do is have a good time.

I feel like in our society there is definitely still a lot of underlying sexism. It's funny how many guys are surprised when you pick up an instrument in the studio, or write your own songs.

Not everybody wanted a female to be the front face of a big band, you know... You had to be three times better than a man had to be.

I thought that I wouldn't be able to make it because I'm a girl, but I think it was just a subconscious feeling. Pretty much every gig I went to was a band with four dudes.

When I was in high school, I was like the only girl making music.

I wasn't taken seriously being the only girl playing in band growing up.

The Manchester music scene was very male dominated.

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?'