Women in Music Quotes

I just being able to write songs I'm proud of and finding some women to play with is exciting.

When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.

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

I've played Frankie Cosmos shows where the promoter or whoever sees that I'm the lead singer, and then they go up to David, the bassist, and are like, 'So, do we pay you?' And he's like, 'No, you pay her; she's the boss.' Those are moments where I'm just like, 'I'm clearly in charge.'

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.

I was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and three guitars.

There are no woman composers, never have been and possibly never will be.

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.

Being a female in music I just, I want everybody to, all the women to come in, and we huddle up and we work together and we help each other.

Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton and I were the first female headliners, where we would book our own opening acts. Before that, it was a standing joke that it was more like we had 'pretty little girl singers' opening for a male headliner.

There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.

There's also, I think more so in the music business and especially for women, this ceiling that people put on you if you have children or a family and decide to spend time with them.

Beyonce, Stevie Nicks, Ani DiFranco, Cardi B - Women tell awesome stories.

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 was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music.

It's interesting that a lot of female artists want to collaborate with me.

Coming up as a female rapper - well, a female artist in general - everything is just so black and white.

I aim to inspire a bunch of female guitar players to get out there and take it seriously and never give up.

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

I read interviews saying women can bring a femininity to a song, a delicacy, but some women make really aggressive music.

It's great for my daughter to see Beyonce and Taylor Swift, women that are in charge of their own careers, writing songs from their own perspective and taking people to task. That's very different from when I was growing up - it was all like, 'Stand by your man.'

It's important for people to realize that music is gender-less. We are proving that every single day. On this tour, there are more women than men in the audience, and it's beautiful to see these girls own these hard-rock moments.

I think, in general, more women need to be involved in music and in the industry - that's been an issue.

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've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them.