Equality in Music Quotes

I have a daughter, I have a wife, and I would never sing something offensive to others - or, specifically, to offend any women.

Jazz is democracy in music.

I want to make sure in every song we write that women are given power.

There are a lot more women drummers now than there used to be, and I'd like to think that I'm part of the reason.

That's my goal: to inspire more female guitarists out there.

As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture the democratic process in sound. Jazz means working things out musically with other people. You have to listen to other musicians and play with them even if you don't agree with what they're playing. It teaches you the very opposite of racism and anti-Semitism. It teaches you that the world is big enough to accommodate us all.

A few people have asked me about the women agenda on country radio. I can only speak for myself on this, and all I have to say is that I'm very grateful, and thankful, that country radio has been so automatically accepting, and supportive, of me and my music.

I think that's the place ideally we'd like to get to as well, as queer people, where you can just judge the music for what it is and not just because it's gay. I think it's important that until we get to that place, statements have to be made, and we have to be loud and outward, so that's where I'm coming from.

I really don't separate male from female ever with music, I really don't.

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

I don't make records just for the ladies. I make it for the fellas, too.

People are wrong when they say that everything should be more diverse, even, say, rock bands. It's an error, an overgeneralization.

In reality - and we've always said this - yes, we are girls, women, but, first and foremost, we're musicians and we're songwriters.

I plan to break the barriers that people try to trap female rappers in. This isn't about 'Oh she sounds good for a female rapper,' it's about 'Yo, she sounds really good on this and can really rap!'

There just needs to be a gay rapper. He doesn't have to be flamboyant, just a rapper who identifies as gay - who's better than everybody. Unfortunately hip-hop is so competitive that in order for fringe groups to get in, you gotta be better than whoever's the best.