Soccer Mommy Quotes

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

Most of my favorite artists are strong females.

I grew up listening to Beethoven and old jazz singers like Billie Holiday, Nina Simone and Anita O'Day. But those were, like, the only women I listened to - I hated women pop singers.

Women's music is underrepresented.

To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'.

I kicked the door open, and I'm gonna hold my leg in there. I'm keeping the door open for all these amazing female singer-songwriters that are coming out.

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.

I love female musicians, female singers.

Most of my favourite artists are women.

There seems to sometimes be an entire genre called 'female-fronted metal.'

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.

It never really occurred to me to seek out a female influence, a female musician.

We've done a couple of women's mags, but we tend to talk about feminism and women in the industry, which I feel more comfortable talking about. It's a more valuable discussion than, 'Oh, you're a girl in a band. What hair conditioner do you use?' I use hair conditioner, and I like talking about it. But I don't want that to be the question.

I know, in so many cases, a lot of the women who came up through the singer-songwriter, Lilith Fair era, the earlier Lilith Fair era, did say that we were influences on them.

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

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't.

I've always been slightly hesitant about generalizing movies made by men and women being different in their nature; I think movies by each director are different. Having said that, I think that it's kind of disgraceful that there aren't more female directors.

I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.

Sometimes I take a movie selfishly because it's a female lead.

We throw at female artists this expectation that their work has to speak to the female experience. And if it doesn't, you're letting the side down. Throwing this stumbling block in the way of female artists is counterintuitive.

I enjoy female rappers, not because they're female but because I can connect to them more.

I like Kelela. I like Twigs. I love the more old school; I hate to say old school, but I love Peaches; I love Peaches, I love Cat Power. And there's constantly new things coming up. But there's something so beautifully powerful - for me being a woman, when there's a woman doing something, it really strikes a chord.

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.

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

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