Hiromi Uehara Quotes

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.

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.

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

It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'

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.

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

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

It's an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.

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 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.

I'd like to be able to get more girls to play guitar. I think with a girl playing electric guitar, sometimes it's seen a bit like a guy doing ballet. All the people I learned guitar from have been guys. There are some great female players, like Bonnie Raitt and Jennifer Batten, but very few.

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

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.

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

Frankly, I get sick of being considered a 'young woman filmmaker' rather than an individual artist, as a man would be.

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

Women's music is underrepresented.

Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.

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.

All I can say is, it's not very easy for a woman to be associated with The Beatles.

People make such a big deal about how people in bands look, especially if you're a girl.

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

Women in music have always been associated with pop - with prettiness, theatricality, melodic hooks and dance beats.