Beth Anderson Quotes

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.

Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chosen not to support a more provocative voice from women, which I find disappointing.

I was lucky to grow up in the '90s, when we had just as many strong female artists as male artists. That's a world I would like to live in again.

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

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.

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

There have always been female artists and singers putting bands together all the time. But we were not always getting credit for that because we didn't know any better.

There's a strong wave of songs by women. Even if the songs are collabs, women have the intro and the chorus, which is what people can sing. We're getting the credibility, the spaces in the award shows, and people want to hear our point of view.

I've always been very respected as a female singer in metal, or in general as a female singer.

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

I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty.

I think female drummers are great. I think there should more of them.

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.

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

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

I don't like the fact that there are so few women in rap.

The music business is very hard on women over 22. You really have to prove yourself every time you make a record. Are you as vibrant as you used to be? Are you as sexy? So I really want to prove that a woman in her 30s can be all those things and more.

I'm just glad that there's some diversity in the music industry with women so people know that you can be literally anything and still be able to make it.

To me, it's exciting that women are dominating the pop charts.

Most of my favorite artists are strong females.

Most of my favourite artists are women.

Especially with women in music there is this unnecessary competitive element. And, like, why? Why do people do things where they try to put peers up against each other?

I just felt drawn towards the kind of music that really needed a strong female presence female writers, female producers, female figures and that just kind of unfolded on its own.

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

I know for a fact I've put in the same amount of hours as every up-and-coming male rapper right now, if not more. I'm a feminist with regard to my music and the music industry.