Female Musicians Quotes

• With pop music and pop musicians, you know everything about everyone all the time, particularly their physical appearance. With female musicians, that's made a big thing of, and I think people, certainly with me, have appreciated a bit of mystery.

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  Lorde

  Thinking   People   Rock N Roll  

  "Lorde, 16-Year-Old New Zealand Musician, Talks ‘Royals’ Video, Feminism And More" By Noah Michelson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2013.

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• I want to live in a world where Miley (or any female musician) can twerk wildly at 20, wear a full-cover floral hippie mumu at 37, show up at 47 in see-through latex, and pose semi-naked, like Keith & co, on the cover of Rolling Stone at 57 and be APPLAUDED for being so comfortable with her body.

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  Amanda Palmer

  Hippie   Musician   Rolling  

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• I'm definitely a victim of some weird twisted form of not really relating to female musicians.

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  Weyes Blood

  Musician   Female   Twisted  

  "An Older, Wiser Weyes Blood". Interview with Aly Comingore, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 21, 2014.

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• A part of being a female musician is kind of getting past your looks and just honing in on the music.

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  Weyes Blood

  Past   Musician   Female  

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't hate being compared with female musicians. I don't mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between women's work.

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  Ani DiFranco

  Hate   Mind   Musician  

  "Interview: Righteous Babe Ani DiFranco". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September 8, 1999.

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• I absolutely adore and idolise women. All women. I think they are all amazing. The female musicians I've met have been far more inspiring than the male ones. Women tend to be much more creative and ambitious. I think I may have been a woman in a past life.

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  Robert Plant

  Thinking   Past   Creative  

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• I'm not really interested in a ton of female musicians but there is something about Britney that compelled me - the way she sings and just the way she looks.

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  Lana Del Rey

  Musician   Female   Looks  

  "Lana Del Rey 'compelled' by Britney Spears" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. February 2, 2012.

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• Basically, this industry is mostly run by men, and I think women have a harder time...I've had enough of the "Women in Rock" issues of magazines and all of that. There's no reason why we should have our own separate little genre; that's just ridiculous. Besides, what is the genre? I certainly don't fit into the whole "Lilith" thing (thank God), but I am a female musician. And there are enough other great females in music that don't have to fit into it, either.

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  Princess Superstar

  Running   Men   Thinking  

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