Female Musician Quotes

The sexiest woman musician is Alicia Keys.

I wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix.

It's not easy being a female guitar player. You have to believe in yourself.

The grand old lady of bluegrass? Well, wouldn't that be a wonderful title to have? I hope I do enough to earn it some day.

The female rock-'n'-roll-country-pop songwriter is back, and her name is Taylor Swift. And it's women like her who are going to save the music business.

I wanted to be Joni Mitchell.

Nicki Minaj is definitely somebody that we love. She is such a powerful, strong woman, and she's so talented.

It's a guy thing, playing the guitar. Being a female and trying to go to the same auditions as the guys, it's pretty hard.

I wasn't taken seriously being the only girl playing in band growing up.

I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.

I did want to be Joni Mitchell for quite a long time.

You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play something more unexpected, so that's when I got interested in learning to play the guitar.

Kate Bush is a huge inspiration for me.

When you're in a band and you're a girl, you know, guys just don't ... it's not the same kind of a groove as a girl walking up wearing a mac with nothing on underneath, or knocking on someone's door at three in the morning.

Being a female guitar player back in school wasn't great, and I had to change schools so many times. The male drummers and bass players thought it was cool, but male guitar players said, 'It's a guy's thing. You should be doing something else, like playing the harp.'

I would think Beyonce will be the greatest female artist of all time.

I definitely idolised Beyonce growing up.

Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredibly Christian background, but there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way.

I think, on the rap side of life, I've always been inspired by and respected Missy Elliott for a long time. She's funny and created an image for herself that was non-sexualized but was really interesting and really cool and really kind of avant-garde in a lot of ways.

I think people see me, and they can't get past my looks or the fact that a girl can be serious about playing the guitar.

When I was in high school, I was like the only girl making music.

Cameron Esposito is a musician and podcaster from the States and she's hilarious.

Being a guitarist was scary, honestly, as a girl in Nashville. It just felt like no one was gonna ask me to be in a band and play guitar, like I never was gonna get asked to do that.

Not everybody wanted a female to be the front face of a big band, you know... You had to be three times better than a man had to be.

In the beginning of my career I had to deal with the fact that since I was the only woman in the band, the singer and the face of the band, I obviously got the most of the attention of the public everywhere I went.