Orianthi Quotes

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.

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.

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.

At the Grammys, how many performances were with women playing instruments? Is it still surprising that a female can play an instrument proficiently?

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

Don't get me wrong, I've seen some very excellent women musicians.

Growing up, I'd never heard of any female producers or songwriters. I didn't know you could be a girl and produce, which is terrible.

I have endless admiration for people like Chrissie Hynde who've been out as the only girl in a band. I'm not sure that, even as a little Marine Corps brat, I would've been able to deal with that.

There aren't too many female guitar players.

It is male-chauvinistic industry, and there's still a long way to go for the female-centric genre to come to the fore.

It's very tough to give advice because it's tough out there for everybody but for a girl it's even tougher, because I don't think the glass ceiling has changed at all in the past 30 years. Otherwise the radio would be covered with girl bands, or girls in bands, so I don't think much has changed on that level. But I think that bands can still have a lot of success trying to go another route.

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.

There's still not as many women in music as men, and I don't really know why. I don't have the answers. I do wish there were more women that played music.

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

It's not fair that there aren't very many juicy or varied roles for women.

I think as women we've always been very used to growing up reading and identifying with male protagonists, especially in fantasy. There's a saying in publishing that girls will read about boys, but boys will only read about boys, and it's important to give women strong heroines.

I want to see 10 female rappers getting regular rotation. It can't be all about a man's opinion.

And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.

In this industry, all the heads of labels are men, but every artist has to prove themselves, regardless of their sex. I have always been very vocal about the women sticking together.

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

I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff and three guys so it's pretty equal. I don't know why that is. It's been the same thing for a while. It's hard for female comedians to stand out. That's weird. That's a shame.

I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.