Gina Schock Quotes

I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?

Especially with music, people want confidence.

I remember I heard it in an interview with Michael Jackson one day, saying the art is gone, everybody makes records just to make a record. See, I always want the artist that try to build a whole body of music on one album, so you can enjoy it. So you could say, 'I went with him here, I went with him here.'

I am just trying to do a song the best possible way I can.

With any band, there's two sides - there's the image, and there's the music.

I entertain more than just sayin', 'oh that's a female rapper,' or 'oh, that's a rapper,' period.' But, me, I put out music, and when I put it out, I also entertain on Twitter. I entertain on stage. I entertain talking to people.

With a band like Shenandoah, you don't want to take things and deconstruct them to a point where you don't recognize them.

Even in the early stages, you can tell who thinks you're an idiot singing songs someone else has written for you. We never wanted to be two producers and a girl who wears some shoes.

I don't mind playing my music live. It's fun. But what my real passion is is writing music.

I think it's down to our songs - we've always made sure every song on every album works.

My biggest struggle is time and trying to create the quality of music that I want.

I just think you have got to bring out good music.

I've always really been a big fan of rock music. I wanted to record rock music when I was 14 or 15, but I was too young; it would have been ridiculous.

The personality and songwriting of Holy Ghost! trumps the originality card any day.

We're a band that really... It's important to us to write music and put it out there and to work together.

After I got back my career and my artistic freedom in 1982, my golden rule is the music must never suffer.

I just want to get to that point where I'm able to fully create music that's good lyrically and quality-wise as far as the way it's knocking and everything.

The key to being a great band that lasts is always going to be making sure you write really good songs and put on really good shows.

What we do every day onstage, there's lights, there's lots of other musicians, there's an audience, there's a microphone and mic stands - layers of the onion we have to kind of hide behind.

Our job is just to keep making great-sounding music and great performances.

I'm always writing music.

I love making music, and performing, that will always be there.

I don't want impersonators playing our music badly.

I feel, in my live shows, I can be as dynamic as I want. It's my comfort zone. When I get in the studio, it's more of a solitary experience, which can be good creatively.

Just trying to make my music as good as possible and to keep performing and just keep moving.